[lit-ideas] Re: Which Doctor's Excuse?
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:58:32 -0400
>>I guess you don't like Gandhi. ... You like petunias?
Petunias are a filthy boring flower, the purple, the red,
the white petunias--all pedestrian trash blooms not worthy
of a garbage can. Easily grown, easily spread like so many
Wal-Marts or asphalt traffic islands, not worth the concern
of serious gardeners, petunias are a blight. They are for
the lazy, the half-assed, those who would plant such ragtag
and bobtail trumpery of the earth are beneath contempt, and
their efforts should end in ridicule. Petunias are subaltern
refuse like Gandhi ... [loud gagging sound] ... and I will
speak of them no more.
Alexander the Great, on the other hand, he knew how to
garden. He also knew how to die in a garden, namely
Nebuchadnezzar's palace garden in Babylon. The comparison is
odious and I will no longer allude to it.
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