I find it comforting to know that the Capitano is going to survive all his adventures and make it to age 80. The Professore isn't going to be so fortunate, I fear.
Indeed I may live to 80.... but it doesn't mean that I won't be lost at sea or taken prisoner between now and then *laughs* But on the subject of Longevity, Professore..... you might want to do what I will eventually do later in my lifespan and eat plenty of seaweed. I learned of it's medicinal properties while on voyage in the far east, and it had become an acquired taste during times when the ship ran out of food. The crew thought I was crazy for eating it and called it "The Capn's salad."
OH, my friend, I have every confidence that you will be shipwrecked and imprisoned a time or two more before you're done. I am also sure that you are more than a match for the ship-hunger of the shoals and shallows around the word, or the anger and whim of pompous potentates and narcissistic tyrants. You're like a cork, you always seem to bob back up to the surface.
That's intriguing about the properties of seaweed -- I have been reading again some of the treatises put forth by various men of science regarding the healthful benefits of immersion in seawater (sea-bathing as the English call it). While it is not at all good to directly drink sea water, it might be possible that the liquid that the seaweed is immersed in through the course of its life (and thereby is infused with) is somehow filtered by the plant...it makes sense that this could be a good way to ingest seawater in a form that is beneficial rather than dangerous. It makes one wonder if the same could be accomplished by the consumption of raw seafood -- fish and marine invertebrates that have not had the sea water cooked out of them by boiling or frying -- as the animals would also process the sea water through a filtration system not unlike what the plants must accomplish. Not everyone would be inclined to eat their seafood raw though...perhaps if it were cut into small bits and rolled in something such as rice in order to be more palatable? Then only what is needed is an outer wrapping to keeping the creation intact while it is consumed...why not wrap it in some of your healthy seaweed to complete the package?
As for my own future, I have had inklings through some of my sessions with our dear Merry Chase, in which I have been given indications that it is not a matter of wellness or aging that will carry me over the threshold: it would seem that just as I entered manhood as a soldier of the House of Savoy, so shall I leave it. But not for a while yet. Not until a foreign land finds a new leader and he takes his host into Piedmont, the land of my birth and childhood. I have a foreboding about a place there, called Mondovi. But such shadows of the future must not concern us. Life is to be lived to the fullest within the frame that Providence grants us. I am reminded of Dr. Franklin's comment that some men stop living at age twenty but are not actually placed in their graves until they are in their 70s. I trust neither you nor I will be accused of having done so.
Ah, Professore. Such a clever idea about the seaweed-wrapped raw seafood. After diving through the Bay of naples, I had noticed that there is quite an abundance ofScyllarides latus(italian slipper lobsters) crawling at the bottom. You may be onto something, and perhaps such a rare treat of seaweed-wrapped slipper lobster can help supplement the income of Rocca Sorrentina alongside your trademark mineral water. In fact, if you can get the town's baker to come up with a uniquely "Rocca Sorrentina" regional specialty, you can indeed put the little island on the map of Italian Culinary destinations.
And as for your destiny, Don Aldo... perhaps the cards may read correctly, perhaps not.... But know that you had earned a friend in me and that the cannons of the Ordine Benevolo Del Lupo Bianco will thunder from the sea in reinforcement for you as you move forth onto land to meet your destiny.
I find it comforting to know that the Capitano is going to survive all his adventures and make it to age 80. The Professore isn't going to be so fortunate, I fear.
Indeed I may live to 80.... but it doesn't mean that I won't be lost at sea or taken prisoner between now and then *laughs* But on the subject of Longevity, Professore..... you might want to do what I will eventually do later in my lifespan and eat plenty of seaweed. I learned of it's medicinal properties while on voyage in the far east, and it had become an acquired taste during times when the ship ran out of food. The crew thought I was crazy for eating it and called it "The Capn's salad."
OH, my friend, I have every confidence that you will be shipwrecked and imprisoned a time or two more before you're done. I am also sure that you are more than a match for the ship-hunger of the shoals and shallows around the word, or the anger and whim of pompous potentates and narcissistic tyrants. You're like a cork, you always seem to bob back up to the surface.
That's intriguing about the properties of seaweed -- I have been reading again some of the treatises put forth by various men of science regarding the healthful benefits of immersion in seawater (sea-bathing as the English call it). While it is not at all good to directly drink sea water, it might be possible that the liquid that the seaweed is immersed in through the course of its life (and thereby is infused with) is somehow filtered by the plant...it makes sense that this could be a good way to ingest seawater in a form that is beneficial rather than dangerous. It makes one wonder if the same could be accomplished by the consumption of raw seafood -- fish and marine invertebrates that have not had the sea water cooked out of them by boiling or frying -- as the animals would also process the sea water through a filtration system not unlike what the plants must accomplish. Not everyone would be inclined to eat their seafood raw though...perhaps if it were cut into small bits and rolled in something such as rice in order to be more palatable? Then only what is needed is an outer wrapping to keeping the creation intact while it is consumed...why not wrap it in some of your healthy seaweed to complete the package?
As for my own future, I have had inklings through some of my sessions with our dear Merry Chase, in which I have been given indications that it is not a matter of wellness or aging that will carry me over the threshold: it would seem that just as I entered manhood as a soldier of the House of Savoy, so shall I leave it. But not for a while yet. Not until a foreign land finds a new leader and he takes his host into Piedmont, the land of my birth and childhood. I have a foreboding about a place there, called Mondovi. But such shadows of the future must not concern us. Life is to be lived to the fullest within the frame that Providence grants us. I am reminded of Dr. Franklin's comment that some men stop living at age twenty but are not actually placed in their graves until they are in their 70s. I trust neither you nor I will be accused of having done so.
Ah, Professore. Such a clever idea about the seaweed-wrapped raw seafood. After diving through the Bay of naples, I had noticed that there is quite an abundance ofScyllarides latus(italian slipper lobsters) crawling at the bottom. You may be onto something, and perhaps such a rare treat of seaweed-wrapped slipper lobster can help supplement the income of Rocca Sorrentina alongside your trademark mineral water. In fact, if you can get the town's baker to come up with a uniquely "Rocca Sorrentina" regional specialty, you can indeed put the little island on the map of Italian Culinary destinations.
And as for your destiny, Don Aldo... perhaps the cards may read correctly, perhaps not.... But know that you had earned a friend in me and that the cannons of the Ordine Benevolo Del Lupo Bianco will thunder from the sea in reinforcement for you as you move forth onto land to meet your destiny.