Sublime

I asked Bernard why it was necessary to keep the truffles damp, and he explained about the perils of evaporation. From the moment they are dug up and taken from the earth, truffles begin to dry out, losing moisture; even worse, losing weight, sometimes as much as ten percent. And since truffles are sold by weight, that ten percent is money, gone up

A baby each year, till the black crows in their black-hearted churches frowned at their excess, and they started to sleep in different beds.

Fruit trees, willows, and chestnuts use their olfactory missives to draw attention to themselves and invite passing bees to sate themselves.

You become responsible forever for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose…”

5 And it shall be as when reapers gather standing grain and their arms harvest the ears, and as when one gleans the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim. 6 Gleanings will be left in it, as when an olive tree is beaten— two or three berries in the top of the highest bough, four or five on the branches of a fruit tree, says the LORD God of Israel.

“Even the garden of Eden was just a big fancy cage,” Adam says. “You’ll be a slave the rest of your life unless you bite the apple.”