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...Mamet's description implies, the Aga is more than just a stove. For one thing, it is never turned off. Fueled by wood or coal in the past, but now powered by oil, gas or electricity, the 500-kg Aga remains permanently hot, ready to roast a turkey, boil a kettle or bake a cake, day or night. Its brightly colored enamel surface also emanates a constant gentle warmth which, like any hearth, tends to draw people to it. Some owners feel such affection for their Aga that they give it a name...
...Fitz explains that he's trying to taper off. And he plans to smuggle into Thailand a few opium pellets that he can boil in a pot of tea and drink. He'll be getting out, he swears. He's not going to stay in some Lao backwater, the Asian equivalent of Appalachia, just because the dope is cheap and plentiful. You want to believe him, you really do, but you just know he's not going anywhere...
...materialistic even in glum times like these. Boom or bust, we're soldiering on - leading our lives of quiet desperation and buy whatever gadgets we can to scratch the itch. Even if it means going a gazillion dollars in debt, we'll keep retail sales respectable until the seas boil...
...names savor of medicinal witcheries and faery mythologies. Weeds are infinitely more interesting in their way than mere pampered uptown flowers, those sleek, over bred showdogs. You can boil the wild weeds, eat them, put them on wounds. Their names are surrounded by an atmosphere of gossip. What goes on between Pokeweed and Bluebead Lilly? The groundlings-or groundhogs- want to know. What conspiratorial dialogue is whispered between Blue Toad flax and Monkshood? What soliloquies from Trumpet Creeper, from Lady's Thumb, from the grizzled Salt-Marsh Fleabane...
...cook and prepare it myself, with Leverett Dining Hall in plain sight, a constant reminder of how food in the dining hall is instantly accessible at meal time—none of this rapid-defrost-in-the-toaster or waiting-for-water-to-boil nonsense...