Twain on Watermelon
Friday, February 26th, 2010A little Friday morning thought to get the weekend started off well:
The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. 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. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.
-Pudd’nhead Wilson
Mark Twain, 1894