Comments on: Tonsured Buffoon

By: Mike Jennings (Exiled in a Pompous Land)

Mike Jennings (Exiled in a Pompous Land) — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:05:35 +0000

“Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods’ roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.”

Which is how you can tell a real from a counterfeit kidney.

By: Mike Jennings (Exiled in a Pompous Land)

Mike Jennings (Exiled in a Pompous Land) — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:45:32 +0000

That being said Mr. Key, the idea of kidney forgery does have a certain fascination.Surely “The Affair of the Counterfeit Kidney” is worthy of its place alongside that of The Poitician, the Lighthouse and the Trained Cormorant.

By: Frank Key

Frank Key — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:23:51 +0000

JohnPDF : “Kidney” as in one of its meanings, given in the OED as “Temperament, nature, constitution, disposition; hence, kind, sort, class, stamp.” I could have said “kind” or “sort” but I am fond – perhaps overfond – of “kidney”, in that usage.

By: JohnPDF

JohnPDF — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:01:00 +0000

“Crime of any kidney was the last thing one would associate with him.”

You mean kidney theft? Or forgery? Perhaps a “crime of the kidney” is a euphemism or metaphor, the meaning of which I am not aware.

By: R

Mon, 04 May 2009 01:17:31 +0000

Perhaps Mr Key would care to confirm the identity of the said tonsured buffoon with his inequitable pneumatic function … could it be …

Estragon:
My left lung is very weak â€¦ but my right lung is sound as a bell.

(S B Beckett, ‘Waiting for Godot’, Act I)