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Fiesty dreams, demons & unusual vegetables

Taste: green avocado; turnip-y, carrot-y water chestnut, crunchy sunchokes; chocolate lava cake
Sight: black and red beribboned Demonia shoes; fist-sized Thumbelina carrots
Touch: rounded warty sunchokes
Sound: British theologian Karen Armstrong defending her views on religion in an interview, "It's not just a bee in my own bonnet. I've been studying this for 20 years."
Smell: sweet, floral perfume on a passersby; the absence of
Extra: the red skirt with the shiny tulip-shaped pattern; the wall across the waves; the tide coming in off the lake; Alicen does yoga; reincarnation as a dolphin: an aquatic, auditory, emotional, highly-sexual being with a 10 million year old spherical brain; growing rosemary and cilantro in the side garden; "It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars and so on — while all that dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons." Mother Teresa's approach to life "... is composed of six essential steps: silence, prayer, faith, love, service, and peace." — Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the intro to the movie So Long and Thanks for All the Fish; looking the an island to land on, heading into a storm, the trees under water, the land under the waves, arriving at a medieval platform, a place where kings and queens sit and perform; reoccurring: an exchange student in Germany arriving in spring without enough dress up clothes, struggling to speak the language

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