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...students there, although a juke box with Al Martino records stands in the corner. When you go, look up at the old colonial white plaster ceiling, the same you'll find above you in Durgin Park, which needs no introduction although its Indian Pudding, a substance which must be eaten for its texture if not taste, merits another notice...
...crumbling surfaces of medieval figures, many without heads or hands, emanate a sense of the centuries they have endured. Revolutionaries knocked them from cathedral walls: some have lain buried: wind has eaten away at others; now the exhaust from tourist buses threatens them with ruin. In their present state, where moments of perfect carving flow between interruptions of broken stone, these pieces symbolize our fragmentary knowledge of art of the Middle Ages...
...cake. Critics of the cement interior would be told by Nixon (or Mitchell) that they are phony idealists who want to have their cake and eat it too. The whole point behind this crude analogy is that the cake is no good as a cake unless it can be eaten. By advertising his program as "an improving quality of life" for the American people, and then limiting his actions to minimal ecology pledges, Nixon is merely showing off the icing...
...rhythm of one year, Russell's gulf is an almost mystical union of womb and grave. Death is "quick, bright, forgettable." Life multiplies with an almost ludicrous optimism. Clouds of plankton feed small fish who in turn are eaten by flounder, mackerel and cod. Big fish chase small fish to the surface, where they are either gobbled from below or grabbed from above by shrieking birds. Shreds of flesh drift to the sea floor to nourish crustaceans...
Together they have eaten 189 pancakes, Claire has eaten about half of them...