"What is in papaya?"
Nothing. Well, I suppose papaya is in papaya. What a question you ask! [Here I sound like a 19th century bourgeois German father]
...I mean, what is in a chappati?
"Flour!"
Okay, smarty pants, what is in an orange if not orange?
"Juice!"
And so it came to pass on this particularly beautiful morning that I was dis-invested of the idea that everything is always what it is or that everything has an unchanging essence. Even sturdy old papaya may one day find itself, when looked at in a kinder light, to be as delicious as a mango.
1 comment:
this is one of your most delicious posts - papaya-mango-delicious :-)
Post a Comment