there's a message in there somewhere
is it much ado about nothing?
should we talk about the weather?
22 Heather pointed out the phrase in other languages and cultures as she is now the pround owner of a glass apple & a glass orange
“Why do you keep saying that " he asked in response "Apples and oranges aren't that different really. I mean they're both fruit. Their weight is extremely similar. They both contain acidic elements. They're both roughly spherical. They serve the same social purpose. With the possible exception of a tangerine I can't think of anything more similar to an orange than an apple. If I was having lunch with a man who was eating an apple and-while I was looking away-he replaced that apple with an orange I doubt I'd even notice. So how is this a metaphor for difference I could understand if you said 'That's like comparing apples and uranium ' or 'That's like comparing apples with baby wolverines ' or 'That's like comparing apples with the early work of Raymond Carver ' or 'That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths.' Those would all be valid examples of profound disparity.”
― Chuck Klosterman
this book just jumped from the little free library into my hands.
better late than never. 22 years later there's a message in there somewhere
I like Klosterman in small bites, here and there, now and then.
This book is next
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