![]() ![]() ![]() The beet was Rasputin's favorite vegetable. ![]() The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a goat-horned god. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon, bearded, buried, all but fossilized the dark green sails of the grounded moon-boat stitched with veins of primordial plasma the kite string that once connected the moon to the Earth now a muddy whisker drilling desperately for rubies. Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn’t conclude until nine o’clock tonight (Paris time). The beet is what happens when the cherry finishes with the carrot. The beet is the murderer returned to the scene of the crime. The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing show more. Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight Paris time. Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets. By Tom Robbins Book description Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. “The beet is the most intense of vegetables. ![]()
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