Word: digestive
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...food, unlike all other arts, is close to completely investigable to all. We can press our thumb through the skin of an orange and break it apart; smell it, taste it, hear it, use it, squeeze it, chew it, digest it, decompose it, excrete it, put it against our foreheads on hot days and in our pockets on the way to a show. We possess it like no other art. Unlike other arts, it doesn't conceal its etymology quite as completely. The orange is non-figurative, non-metaphorical. The orange, as food, does not stand for something else except...
...rules do serve, it can be argued, to keep the student from scattering his course selections all over everywhere and coming out with nothing but a sort of Reader's Digest education, Intellectual dilettantism. The rules make sure the student at least does something in his four years at Harvard. In the first place, this isn't exactly true: everyone knows it is possible to get a Harvard degree while doing almost nothing for four years but reading an occasional chapter and playing the pin-ball machines. Besides, even if that argument were valid it wouldn't be compelling...