Thomas Love Peacock

Gryll Grange Thomas Love Peacock

Ego sic semper et ubique vixi, ut ultimam quamque lucem, taraquam non redituram, consumerem.-Petronius Arbiter. Always and everywhere I have so lived, that I might consume the passing light as if it were not to return. Always and everywhere I have so lived, that I might consume the passing light as if it were not to return.'Palestine soup!' said the Reverend Doctor Opimian, dining with his friend Squire Gryll; 'a curiously complicated misnomer. We have an excellent old vegetable, the artichoke, of which we eat the head; we have another of subsequent, of which we eat the root, and which we also call artichoke, because it resembles the first in flavour, although, me judice, a very inferior affair. This last is a species of the helianthus, or sunflower genus of the Syngenesia frustranea class of plants. It is therefore a girasol, or turn-to-the-sun. From this girasol we have made Jerusalem, and from the Jerusalem artichoke we make Palestine soup.'