Dudley's dungeon

                    
   TODAY'S LESSON   
                    
     Diet of a      
    pet studentThese strange creatures live mostly on the surface of the
earth, gathering together in societies of various forms, but
occasionally a stray will descend into the depths and commit
mayhem among the dungeon residents who, naturally, often
resent the intrusion of such beasts.  They are capable of
using weapons and magic, and it is even rumored that the
Wizard of Yendor is a member of this species.

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    @ <- Hermley    
    @ <- Ronley     
                    

                    
carnivore + herbivor
                    
    d -> @          
         ^          
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         u          
                    

                    
      DOGFOOD       
                    
  % <- tripe rationIf you start from scratch, cooking tripe is a long-drawn-out
affair.  Fresh whole tripe calls for a minimum of 12 hours of
cooking, some time-honored recipes demanding as much as 24.
To prepare fresh tripe, trim if necessary.  Wash it thoroughly,
soaking overnight, and blanch, for 1/2 hour in salted water.
Wash well again, drain and cut for cooking.  When cooked, the
texture of tripe should be like that of soft gristle.  More
often, alas, because the heat has not been kept low enough,
it has the consistency of wet shoe leather.
        [ Joy of Cooking, by I Rombauer and M Becker ]

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  % <- meatball     
                    
  % <- appleNEWTONIAN, adj.  Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe
invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall
to the ground, but was unable to say why.  His successors
and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say
when.
        [ The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce ]

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  % <- carrot       
                    

                    
      CADAVER       
                    
 % <- eggBut I asked why not keep it and let the hen sit on it till it
hatched, and then we could see what would come out of it.
"Nothing good, I'm certain of that," Mom said.  "It would
probably be something horrible.  But just remember, if it's a
crocodile or a dragon or something like that, I won't have it
in my house for one minute."
        [ The Enormous Egg, by Oliver Butterworth ]

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 % <- jackalIn Asiatic folktale, jackal provides for the lion; he scares
up game, which the lion kills and eats, and receives what is
left as reward.  In stories from northern India he is
sometimes termed "minister to the king," i.e. to the lion.
From the legend that he does not kill his own food has arisen
the legend of his cowardice.  Jackal's heart must never be
eaten, for instance, in the belief of peoples indigenous to
the regions where the jackal abounds. ... In Hausa Negro
folktale Jackal plays the role of sagacious judge and is
called "O Learned One of the Forest."  The Bushmen say that
Jackal goes around behaving the way he does "because he is
Jackal".
        [ Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore ]

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 % <- lichenThe chamber was of unhewn rock, round, as near as might
be, eighteen or twenty feet across, and gay with rich
variety of fern and moss and lichen.  The fern was in
its winter still, or coiling for the spring-tide; but
moss was in abundant life, some feathering, and some
gobleted, and some with fringe of red to it.
        [ Lorna Doone, by R.D. Blackmore ]

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      ACCFOOD       
                    
  % <- candy barOnly once a year, on his birthday, did Charlie Bucket ever
get to taste a bit of chocolate.  The whole family saved up
their money for that special occasion, and when the great
day arrived, Charlie was always presented with one small
chocolate bar to eat all by himself.  And each time he
received it, on those marvelous birthday mornings, he would
place it carefully in a small wooden box that he owned, and
treasure it as though it were a bar of solid gold; and for
the next few days, he would allow himself only to look at it,
but never to touch it.  Then at last, when he could stand it
no longer, he would peel back a tiny bit of the paper
wrapping at one corner to expose a tiny bit of chocolate, and
then he would take a tiny nibble - just enough to allow the
lovely sweet taste to spread out slowly over his tongue.  The
next day, he would take another tiny nibble, and so on, and
so on.  And in this way, Charlie would make his ten-cent bar
of birthday chocolate last him for more than a month.
        [ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl ]

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  % <- food ration  
  % <- orangeWhat was the fruit like?  Unfortunately, no one can describe
a taste.  All I can say is that, compared with those fruits,
the freshest grapefruit you've ever eaten was dull, and the
juiciest orange was dry, and the most melting pear was hard
and woody, and the sweetest wild strawberry was sour.  And
there were no seeds or stones, and no wasps.  If you had once
eaten that fruit, all the nicest things in this world would
taste like medicines after it.  But I can't describe it.  You
can't find out what it is like unless you can get to that
country and taste it for yourself.
        [ The Last Battle, by C.S. Lewis ]

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  % <- pearWhat was the fruit like?  Unfortunately, no one can describe
a taste.  All I can say is that, compared with those fruits,
the freshest grapefruit you've ever eaten was dull, and the
juiciest orange was dry, and the most melting pear was hard
and woody, and the sweetest wild strawberry was sour.  And
there were no seeds or stones, and no wasps.  If you had once
eaten that fruit, all the nicest things in this world would
taste like medicines after it.  But I can't describe it.  You
can't find out what it is like unless you can get to that
country and taste it for yourself.
        [ The Last Battle, by C.S. Lewis ]

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  % <- pizza        
                    

                    
      POISON        
  % <- old corpse   
                    
                    
       TABU         
  % <- cockatriceOnce in a great while, when the positions of the stars are
just right, a seven-year-old rooster will lay an egg.  Then,
along will come a snake, to coil around the egg, or a toad,
to squat upon the egg, keeping it warm and helping it to
hatch.  When it hatches, out comes a creature called basilisk,
or cockatrice, the most deadly of all creatures.  A single
glance from its yellow, piercing toad's eyes will kill both
man and beast.  Its power of destruction is said to be so
great that sometimes simply to hear its hiss can prove fatal.
Its breath is so venomous that it causes all vegetation
to wither.

There is, however, one creature which can withstand the
basilisk's deadly gaze, and this is the weasel.  No one knows
why this is so, but although the fierce weasel can slay the
basilisk, it will itself be killed in the struggle.  Perhaps
the weasel knows the basilisk's fatal weakness:  if it ever
sees its own reflection in a mirror it will perish instantly.
But even a dead basilisk is dangerous, for it is said that
merely touching its lifeless body can cause a person to
sicken and die.
[ Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library)
  and other sources ]

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       corpse       
                    

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