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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 06:12:10 EST
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- From: Robert Braham <RMB@CUNYVMS1.BITNET>
- Subject: RE: Jonagold
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- >From: M.E.Bennun@CEN.EX.AC.UK
-
- >I'd love to try [Jonagolds]
- >... apples are one of my three favourite fruits.... the
- >Lord has cursed me with an inability to eat enough avocados and guavas
- >also.... it's an added twist to the problems of exile!
-
- Allusion check: are you referring to exile from S.Africa?
- Or are you un-exiling exile (or something) by grumbling,
- as did the ancient Jews when leaving Egypt, that although
- freedom is all well and good, they
- can't good garlic and onions anymore? (Either this is in
- Scripture or Rashi or Chazal, I'm not sure).
-
- > . . . it starts raining later in
- >the morning, usually, so far...soft autumn colours and my sheep look
- >so calm in the mist. Sometimes, I feel that the only place and time
- >there's peace is in my orchard in the early morning....
-
- Sounds lovely. Real sheep? Wow.
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