Sunday, March 8, 2026

Animals dipped in food

In "Minor syncs: Omelette and Mormon tempest," I report suddenly wanting an omelette and then finding a reference to that food in The King in Yellow. Wondering whether omelettes might have been mentioned earlier in that book, planting the idea in my head, I did a word search. There is one earlier instance:

"That's a blackbird," observed Miss Byng; "see him there in the bush with pink blossoms. He's all black except his bill, and that looks as if it had been dipped in an omelet, as some Frenchman says --"

Shortly after searching out this reference, I checked the latest Barnhardt Meme Barrage (I've really got to find a better source for memes now that Anglin has apparently retired), which included this:


The blackbird is a dark animal that looks as if its bill (nose and mouth) had been dipped in yellow food. The dog is a yellow animal that looks as if its muzzle (nose and mouth) had been dipped in dark food.

Yesterday I tried and failed to find a place that sold omelettes. Today, no longer looking for omelettes, I decided to lunch at a new restaurant I knew nothing about, and as serendipity would have it, it sells omelettes. The name of the restaurant is Black Man, which is a bit of a sync with the omelette-dipped blackbird, of which Miss Byng says, using the masculine pronoun, "He's all black."

Note added: My last post, "Glorians and such," connected the post "King son of Light, and black dog stars" with a dog named King in "Hometo Omleto." This suggests that King son of Light (i.e. Tar-Calion, official name of Pharazon the Golden) is the same as the black dog star. A Golden Retriever, dipped in dark material so as to appear (partly) black, seems a related concept.

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Animals dipped in food

In " Minor syncs: Omelette and Mormon tempest ," I report suddenly wanting an omelette and then finding a reference to that food i...