Watermelons

thumb|Watermelon Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus, family Cucurbitaceae) is a vine-like (scrambler and trailer) flowering plant originally from southern Africa. Quotes That was the hardest part, I admit, but I had akind of dark foreknowledge of what it would be like.Everything, from eating watermelon or going to the bathroomor just standing on a subway platform, lost in thoughtfor a few minutes, or worrying about rain forests,would be affected, or more precisely, inflectedby my new attitude. I wouldn't be preachy,or worry about children and old people, exceptin the general way prescribed by our clockwork universe. John Ashbery, "My Philosophy of Life" (1995) The fish has too many bonesand the watermelon too many seeds. Charles Reznikoff, "The Old Man" (1969) Green BuddhasOn the fruit stand.We eat the smileAnd spit out the teeth. Charles Simic, "Watermelons" (1974) It is chief of this world’s luxuries, king by the grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. Mark Twain "Pudd'nhead Wilson" To cut with a sharp knife a bright green watermelon on a big scarlet plate of a summer afternoon. Ah, is this not happiness? Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living (1937), "Chin's Thirty-three Happy Moments", p. 134 External links Category:Fruit