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- From: dsoconne@quads.uchicago.edu (Daniel S OConnell)
- Subject: Pie, Fruit, Beginner, Remain Calm, All Will Be Explained / Dano
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- Organization: Dead Poets Society
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 03:45:09 GMT
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- Pie, Fruit, Beginner, Remain Calm, All Will Be Explained
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- If you are just learning to cook
- I recommend making a pie: a fruit pie.
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- No forty-seven ingredients
- that start and end
- in a soggy, heated mess
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- Just a pie &
- every pie
- expresses the essence
- of pie-ness. No one will
- ask you: What is it?
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- A pie is good, a pie is basic,
- a pie is primordial baking.
- It is innocent, it has integrity.
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- A pie in the refridgerator
- is infinitely more appealing
- than any other left-over.
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- Pies are manly & womanly &
- childlike all at once.
- Pies, even more than bread,
- waft their way deep into the body.
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- A pie knows what it is &
- has no pretensions
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- The advanced student may experiment
- with the exotic: mincemeat, rhubarb,
- shoo-fly, four and twenty blackbirds;
- but if you want to do one thing that is
- simple and good and true and wordless,
- make a fruit pie.
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- It is perfectly content to be
- a perfect pie &
- glory in its pie-ness.
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- Dano (C&CA)
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