Guest guest Posted November 12, 2003 Report Share Posted November 12, 2003 It's excellent mixed with mayo and celery and onion on wheat bread or rye. On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 07:33 AM, wrote: > > Message: 1 > Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:15:39 -0800 (PST) > jeanette thompson <jazzy_jeanette > Re: Digest Number 625 > > I had been craving tuna salad tremendously when I found the Tuno product > by Worthington. I personally thought it was one of the nastiest things I > had ever put in my mouth. I wondered at the time if I had not prepared > it would I have liked it better. When coming out of the can it had that > " dog food " smell and the appearance is not very appetizing. Maybe others > who have tried it feel differently, but that is my opinion on Tuno. > > Jeanette > " ...The range (to say nothing of the amount) of material that Powers likes to load into his novels can seem overwhelming, but certain recurrent themes and preoccupations structure pretty much all of the work. Chief among these is the relationship between science and art, the objective ''facts'' of existence and the subjective ways we interpret them. (Powers knows whereof he speaks: for a while he made a living writing computer code, after getting an M.A. in literature.) Like a lot of writers, he's concerned with the effects of the high-tech on everyday life, but what's interesting is that he resists the powerful temptation to condemn technology as soul-destroying -- the self-protective cliche of almost all novelists who don't write science fiction, and many who do... " --Daniel Mendelsohn, NY TIMES review of The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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