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07lycheelane:

“…to eat a fruit is to know its meaning.”

— Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe

Characters in Russian literature are always eating (or offering) fruit at significant moments. (Gurov in The Lady and the Lapdog eats a slice of watermelon after he and Anna have slept together for the first time; Oblonsky in Anna Karenina is bringing Dolly a large pear when she confronts him with his infidelity.) It is in the blood of Russian storytelling to take note of the fruit.

 Janet Malcolm, Iphigenia in Forest Hills

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