A diabolical offer

[muckefuck]

Sorry, teapot_farm. Eberhard's entry on mushrooms in his Dictionary of Chinese symbols focusses almost completely on immortality fungus, with hardly a word on common 'shrooms and nothing at all on the cute ones featured in Fantasia.

In other news, I've been having no luck either coaxing someone to come to the opera with me this Friday or giving away our two tickets. Front row, upper balcony. (Bad sight lights, great acoustics.) Gounod's Faust (not my fave--and we just saw it a few seasons ago) with Sam Ramey as Mephistopheles.

Any takers?

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[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

What symbolic meanings does lemongrass have? Or okra? What about celery (barbarian or gai lan)? Chiles? Scallions? Coconuts?

There's a lot of general food symbolism--some foods are yang, others yin--but the number of edible plants I can think of which have specific symbolic associations are really rather small.

[teapot-farm.livejournal.com]

OK, OK, so I was generalising horribly from a smallish and subjective base of knowledge - it's an impression rather than a tested hypothesis. I admit it. I'll sulk about it, but I admit it :)