"Do it lovingly--in perfect quarters like little boats, or in staggered exfoliations like a flat map of a round world, or in one long spiral, as my grandfather used to do. Nothing is more likely to become garbage than an orange rind; but for as long as anyone looks at it in delight, it stands a million triumphant miles from the trash heap.
"That, you know, is why the world exists at all. It remains outside the cosmic garbage can of nothingness, not because it is such a solemn necessity that nobody can get rid of it, but because it is the orange peel hung on God's shoulders like a chandelier, the wishbone in His kitchen closet. He likes it; therefore it stays."
--from Robert Farrar Capon in The Supper of the Lamb, our next book club read. I've barely begun it, and already am collecting quotes from it. This will be fun!
Keep on! We have a month to go!
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Bonnie
I need to find a book club. It sounds so interesting.
ReplyDeleteWhen I went to the Inter-Varsity camp a couple of years ago, I worked in the kitchen. They had grapefruit and the head man of the kitchen told me whichway to cut them. I smiled to myself.
The book has become like an old friend. I love picking it up and reading a few pages..underlining as I go..We could use his approach to food and cooking in many other areas....books and writing, for instance...I do wish we didn't hurry so much..
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