Strange Conversations: Part One Hundred and Fifty-Six
Posted 24 June 2009 in Strange Conversations by Catriona
Nick is cooking pasta sauce entirely from fresh ingredients he bought from the farmer’s market in the city this afternoon.
ME (calling from the study): How’s it going, honey?
NICK: I am reaching a crescendo of awesome!
Alas, things rarely stay so sunny for long, as evidenced by this brief monologue some five minutes later:
NICK: Garlic! Garlic! Ah, garlic—all is vanity!
No, I don’t know what it means. And I don’t believe Nick does, either.
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Drew wrote at Jun 24, 08:44 pm
it’s a reference to those famous missing lines from Ecclesiastes:
Vanity of vanities, saith the Fruit Vendor, burn not the garlic or all is vanity.
I have seen all the vegetables that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of pasta sause.
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Catriona wrote at Jun 24, 10:14 pm
The Fruit Vendor? Is he standing next to the Cheese Maker?
(“Obviously, it’s not meant to be taken literally. It refers to all manufacturers of dairy products.”)