Our whole body’s warning us: do not drink this. Our olfactory system, our forebrains are warning us: steer clear!
Everything in us resists. Cries out. There’s, like, rising bile. The impulse to retch. But we’re drinking anyway.
What are we becoming? What is it turning us into? What process is taking place? We’re, like, overriding nature. Even disgust.
The postgraduates are retching.
Of course they are! And so they should! It’s part of their education. They have to learn the arts of disgust. They have to work up from disgust at this or that thing to disgust at everything. Disgust at the world!
World-disgust: Cicero would approve.
It has to be visceral. It has to involve all the senses. It has to be olfactory. Gustatory. The retcher is the person who has begun to understand these things.
Work in Progress 