WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.440 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.440 --> 00:00:02.476 align:middle line:90% [INAUDIBLE] 00:00:02.476 --> 00:00:05.160 align:middle line:90% 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:06.180 align:middle line:90% "Asparagus." 00:00:06.180 --> 00:00:09.150 align:middle line:90% 00:00:09.150 --> 00:00:12.990 align:middle line:84% "Pushing up hard and fibrous from the ground, 00:00:12.990 --> 00:00:18.240 align:middle line:84% it is the spear of Dionysus said to be grown for the mouth, 00:00:18.240 --> 00:00:22.860 align:middle line:84% steamed till supple, so the stem is firm, 00:00:22.860 --> 00:00:28.150 align:middle line:84% but with a slight give to gravity. 00:00:28.150 --> 00:00:33.280 align:middle line:84% Each listening wand has spurs that swell embedded layers 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:38.500 align:middle line:84% to the dark tip, slumped and implicate, tied set, 00:00:38.500 --> 00:00:45.010 align:middle line:84% and overlapping around the bud, in a slather and slide, butter 00:00:45.010 --> 00:00:48.210 align:middle line:90% floods at the bulb head." 00:00:48.210 --> 00:00:50.000 align:middle line:90%