the air. An elderly gourmet with the insane bloodshot eyes of a mandril, is a fashioning a hangman’s knot with a red velvet curtain cord. . . Seeing himself cornered and in imminent danger of dismemberment at least; A.J. plays his trump card . . . He throws back his head and lets ut a hog call; and a hundred famished hogs he had stationed nearby rush into the restaurant, slopping the haute cuisine. Like a great tree Robert Falss to the floor in a stroke where he is eaten by the hogs: “Poor bastards don’t know enough to appreciate him,” says A.J.
Robert’s brother Paul emerges from retirement in a local nut house and takes over the restaurant to dispense something he calls the “Transcendental Cuisine.”
. . .Imperceptibly the quality of the food declines until he is serving literal garbage, the clients being too intimidated by reputation of Chez Robert to protest.

Sample Menu:
The Clear Camel Piss Soup with boiled Earth Worms
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The Filet of Sun-Ripened Sting Ray
basted with Eau de Cologne and garnished with nettles
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The After-Birth Supreme de Boeuf,cooked in a drained crank case oil,
served with a piquant sauce of rotten eggs yolks and crushed bed bugs
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The Limburger Cheese sugar cured in diabetic urine
doused in Canned Heat Flamboyant. . .

So the clients are quietly dying of botulism. . .Then A.J. returns with an entourage of Arab refugees from