Leaving them with my husband, Don, I set out alone — just 15 minutes, I promised — to get a taste of this strange ecosystem, one of four distinct microclimates in the forest.
Through five interweaving short films written by Alan Moore, collectively known as Show Pieces, viewers get a taste of the strange attractions, rules, ceremonies, and terrors of the gentlemen's club.
Their strange taste of the alcoholic drinks also reflects the unusual ingredients that go into them -- quinine, aloe, anice, rhubarb and other herbs and roots -- intended to stimulate the secretion of gastric juices and thus speed digestion.
I could not explain the strange taste of dust in my mouth.
And talking to people in a crowded room can taste a bit like putting lots of strange things into a food processor at once, he says.
Maybe this overlap represents a new, more inevitably populist strand of shared taste in its strange collapse of the style's broader ties to its past.
They should also (Michael Gove is right here) give students a taste of what is old and strange.
"The images of bare-breasted native women gave me my first taste of sexuality; I developed a strange fascination with these supposedly educational images".
Like all time-travel stories, this inevitably trips on its own causal illogic – but not before it's offered you a taste of something genuinely rich and strange, and probably toxic.
Embarrassment a-go-go, the late middle-aged Lenny's attempt to show he was hip, cool and groovy has by now passed through all barriers of good taste into a strange Zen world of pure weirdness.
