Part of the problem is Richard Dixon, who became Calasso's translator of choice and rendered many of his passages incomprehensible (e.g. "“balsamic bandages" instead of “balm-steeped bandages” etc). Here is the same passage but translated 25 years earlier by Weaver and Sartarelli:

Just in time for the Day commemorating the beheading of Saint Valentine, I’m thrilled to announce the release of the digital single Time Will Place, recorded by the detective agency/law firm/funeral home Martov & Rochester:
silenicturn.bandcamp.com/album/time-w...

It would be nice to have an English translation of this, one day. youtu.be/1HNJyZfH0yQ?...

Today’s early afternoon jam: Andy Votel’s mixtape of unshazamable “classical” music ETUDES DU MÉTAL ORTOLAN (DDS, 2023).

“After capture, the [ortolans] are fattened up … before being drowned in Armagnac. Then they are plucked, cooked, and eaten whole, bones and all – everything but the beak.”