"I want a bowl of pudding the size of my head flavored with the extinct plant silphium, which once grew in the Mediterranean plateaus; the Greek writer Theophrastus noted that it came after a black rain showered on the Gardens of the Hesperides, and Pliny the Elder said it was worth its weight in gold when the last stalk of it was sent to the emperor Nero. Its flowers were probably yellow."
All the Things I Want
"An imaginary shopping list, whose first item is the undoing of a war, and whose other items are equally implausible"
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