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39th year  -  N° 357                 Sunday, 22 December 2024         Antwerpen		
Is it My Body? Someone I Might Be?
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Thursday 20th of September 1945

79 years ago



Occultist, explorer, traveller, cannibal and journalist William Buehler Seabrook aka The White Cannibal of New York commits suicide by a drug overdose at the age of -39 in Rhinebeck, New York, United States.


"It was like good, fully developed veal, not young, but not yet beef. It was very definitely like that, and it was not like any other meat I had ever tasted. It was so nearly like good, fully developed veal that I think no person with a palate of ordinary, normal sensitiveness could distinguish it from veal. It was mild, good meat with no other sharply defined or highly characteristic taste such as for instance, goat, high game, and pork have. The steak was slightly tougher than prime veal, a little stringy, but not too tough or stringy to be agreeably edible. The roast, from which I cut and ate a central slice, was tender, and in color, texture, smell as well as taste, strengthened my certainty that of all the meats we habitually know, veal is the one meat to which this meat is accurately comparable."