Word: garlic
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...steady state or Big Bang, or whether it has 10 dimensions or four, is just decorative trim around the grand mystery of why anything or any law exists. But by reminding us of our deep cosmic ignorance, science, far from dulling the mystery of existence, sharpens it the way garlic wafting on the evening breeze whets your appetite. It reminds us that we dwell in a mystery that is ultimately more to be savored than solved...
...Onion Weavers probably had as good to time putting on the show as the audience did watching it. And any production that successfully incorporates the line. "Where is yesterday's garlic?" deserves a place in the puppet theater pantheon...
That's the first and last romantic view of Charlie Kate, a blunt and righteous woman who eats garlic on toast for breakfast, smells of mothballs and ties her "resolute shoes" with 30-year-old laces soaked every Sunday in linseed oil ("My shoestrings," she says, "have lasted years longer than most people can stand each other"). An eccentric who knows as much about Thomas Hardy's novels as she does about cirrhosis of the liver, Charlie Kate is in fact a healing genius who uses herbal cures like evening primrose and Saint-John's-Wort, as well...
...instructions about courting ("He's not going to leave you alone. Not since Satan tackled Eve has somebody gone after a person as hard as he'll go after you"), through the Depression and into World War II, Gibbons paints this medicine woman in colors as pungent as mashed garlic, as envigorating as sarsaparilla, and as soothing as lemon-balm tea. The charm for the reader is that there is still such a thriving population of Southern women left in the author's well-healed imagination...
...were punished by being force-fed pepper until they died. The builders of Egypt's pyramids were paid off in onions. The Roman scholar Pliny was startled by the high retail prices of the Eternal City -- "Have times really changed?" the author asks -- and believed that the odor of garlic would repel scorpions...