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The Beet in Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
Someone told me that JITTERBUG PERFUME has
something to say about "the beet"
Date: 5/29/2009 4:48:35 PM ( 15 y ) ... viewed 1177 times
2;47 PM
May 29, 09
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_v37/ai_3831980/
the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious."
Obviously, most people, even most vegetarians, cannot feel or express such emotions as these about vegetables. Indeed, I am quite sure that Tom Robins himself does not, each time he prepares or consumes a salad, think this imaginatively about the ingredients of it. Were he to do so, he would eventually find himself dealing with the inferior salads served in mental hospitals instead of the ones he currently enjoys. But poetry is licentious, and the poet-novelist, through his exaggerated metaphor, is able to convey the materialism that all people share. The Pope, too, likes his lunch.
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