Speaking of food, novelists and philosophers occasionally do just that.



The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison (1970)


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"Standing before the counter, she looks at the array of candies. All Mary Janes, she decides. Three for a penny. The resistant sweetness that breaks open at last to deliver peanut butter - the oil and salt which complement the sweet pull of caramel. A peal of anticipation unsettles her stomach."

 

 


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