On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:49:29 -0700 (PDT), bulka wrote:

> Mutant Message Down Under - Marlo Morgan 1994
>
> A fictionalized, romanticized "based on a true story" novel of a woman
> from Kansas City going on walkabout and changing her life.
>
> She tries to share her culture with her new aboriginal friends. Their
> reactions when she explained cake frosting and demonstrated gravy:
>
> On gravy: "Instead of living the truth, Mutants (the civilized world)
> allow circumstances and conditions to bury universal law under a
> mixture of convenience, materialism, and insecurity."
>
> On frosting: "It seemed to symbolize how much time, in the one-
> hundred-year Mutant life span, is spent in artificial, superficial,
> temporary, decorative, sweetened pursuits. So very few actual moments
> of one's life are spent discovering who we are, and our eternal
> beingness."
>
> B

'...now who's got the booze?'

your pal,
blake