And looking at one single label on a jar, he felt himself gone round the calendar to that private day this summer when he had looked at the circling world and found himself at its center.
The word on the jar was RELISH.
And he was glad he had decided to live.
RELISH! What a special name for the minced pickle sweetle crushed in its white-capped jar. The man who had named it, what a man he must have been. Roaring, stamping around, he must have tromped the joys of the world and jammed them in this jar and writ in big hand, shouting, RELISH!
For its very sound meant rolling in sweet fields with roistering chestnut mares, mouths bearded with grass, plunging your head fathoms deep in trough water so the sea poured cavernously through your head. RELISH!
He put out his hand. And here was - SAVORY . . .
Douglas moved deeper into the pantry darkness.
Savory. That's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that's the best. - Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
"Inspire me, 'cause if you don't I think I'll dissipate to dust." - Eve6, Smalltown Trap
"Nothing? Nothing? Nothing? NOTHING, tra la la?" - David Bowie as Jareth in Labyrinth
"I'm a lesbin traped in a mans body . . . so bring on the chicks." - Mike the Marine during an AOL Instant Messenger chat
"I walked around my good intentions and found that there were none." - Our Lady Peace, 4am
"No, I love Canada, but come on, we could take it over with a plastic spoon." - Read on Guster's fan2fan mailing list
"Your mother was a hampster and your father smelt of ELDERBERRIES!" - Monty Python & the Holy Grail
"Hey, try not to suck any dick on the way through the parking lot!" - Dante, Clerks
"What's with you today?"
"I don't appreciate your ruse, ma'am."
"I just read between classes that McDonald's, the Golden Arches, is buying Boston Market. That's some good chicken. I like their turkey dinner. That's good stuff. Seventy-three million dollars for chicken. Good . . . chicken . . . " - My crazed high school American Government teacher while repeatedly drawing the letter m with his hands to symbolise the McDonald's signature Golden Arches
"Happiness is a temporary chemical imbalance of the true state of mind." - Lusiphur Malache, Poison Elves
"If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried." - unknown
"It feels so good to be right. There's nothing more exhilarating than pointing out the short-comings of others, is there?" - Randall, Clerks
"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves." - Sophocles
"I'll stir-fry you in my wok!" - Beastie Boys, Intergalactic
"Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind." - Terry Pratchett, Eric
"If I wasn't such a weenie, do you think you'd still love me?" - The Offspring, I Choose
"I taught you that word!"
"Ever since you told me you're a Republican, my sexual attraction to you vanished." - Matt Levine to me
"Come with us; we'll sail the seas of cheese." - Primus, Seas of Cheese
"We are like two jagged edges which seem to fit almost seamlessly together to form something even more complete." - Jeremy S. Running
"Cowabunga, Mrs. Reams."
"Yeah, I've got Big Bird apple juice. I'm happy." - Bethany
"She reached into her bag and pulled out a strawberry Pop-tart, the very same breakfast pastry that I was consuming at that moment. What was I to do? How was I to procede?" - Preston Meyers, Can't Hardly Wait
"Who needs her? Who needs her? You know - you know what they say about women and trolley cars, right? There's plenty of them in the sea. Am I right or am I right?" - William "Bill" Lichter, Can't Hardly Wait
"Dang it! Where are the big spoons?! I hate change in the silverware drawer!" - Tracey, my highly quote-able best friend
"Oh! My aching sushi!" - A nipperstick in Labyrinth
"Mr. Miller, your purse has been found." - A note to one of my high school teachers
"Care about people's approval, and you will be their prisoner." - Lao Tzu
"Before I sink into the big sleep, I want hear the scream of the butterfly." - The Doors, When The Music's Over
"Sex is good in Chile." - Renato, the foreign exchange student from Chile whom I planned to bear the children of my junior year of high school
"In order to maintain good health, your body must be able to eliminate food and bodily waste. Your colon, together with your lungs, skin and kidneys are designed to accomplish this essential task by elimination of toxins in the intestines, blood and lymph systems. The process of digestion from ingestion of food to defecation, normally takes between 12 to 24 hours assuming that the colon is fully functional and non-toxic. Irregular or infrequent bowel movements can allow toxic residues to remain in the colon. It is very rare in this society, to find normal function of a healthy colon. For abnormal function, colon hydrotherapy or enemas - as they are commonly known - are recommended. And this is what we need to tell the kids - take care of your colon and your colon will take care of you." - Travis of Blink 182 on their new album, Enema of the State
"Here I am - wet and naked, in your bedroom, with handcuffs. Take me now. Take it off." - Marla to me
"Don't worry. Nothing will happen. Our genitals aren't lined up." - Tracey
"Let's wash ourselves! Whoo-ooo!" - My psycho high school Spanish teacher
"Tease me just a little. I'm not hard to persuade." - The Urge, Jump Right In
"I dare any muthafucka to go on with Public Enemy without Flav. That's like sailing a boat with a big-ass hole in the bitch." - Flava Flav
"I'm penising my hair!" - My psycho high school Spanish teacher during a lesson on why it's important to pronounce the i in peine
"People are supposed to think that girls who play sports are like powerful and they should get credit for shit but they're just a bunch of sweaty, fishy lesbians." - notreallyhere, a very odd character and rabid fan of silverchair
"Is the Hokey Pokey what it's really all about?" - Matt from Philly
"I'm exciting. I've got soul. And I've got a fucking big bonfire in me stomach that needs to be let out." - Liam Gallagher
"Sometimes I let stinkers in the cooler." - Bethany, my gaseous cousin, while explaining why one should never eat the meat stored in the refrigerator at Subway during our three-month stint working there
"Open-minded students everywhere owe a debt of gratitude to Abercrombie & Fitch. Not since Hester Prynne has an embroidered A been such a clear indication of whom to avoid." - Michael Daniels in a letter to Rolling Stone magazine
"When I go forwards, you go backwards. Somewhere we will meet." - Radiohead, Electioneering
"Dad, women won't like being shot in the face."
"Sometimes the beauty of the world is so overwhelming, I just want to throw back my head and gargle. Just gargle and gargle, and I don't care who hears me, because I am beautiful." - Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts
"Though they think that they define you, they are slave to what you know." - Matthew Sweet
"Be happy with your sport. If you're not having fun, perhaps you should try something else . . . like sheep-herding." - Random Ryan from my high school American Government class
"If you don't want to be called a whore, don't wear the uniform." - Rae on Opium, the Jump, Little Children mailing list
"People say that what we're all seeking is the meaning of life . . . I think that what we're really seeking is the experience of being alive." - Rudyard Kipling
"Maybe I could be the one they adored. That could be my reputation. It's where I'm from that lets them think I'm a whore. I'm an educated virgin." - The Wallflowers, Sleepwalker
"Tongues are pretty neat." - My friend Erica, while doing tongue tricks at my mom's funeral, the most appropriate of places to do tongue tricks
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." - Oscar Wilde
"You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine." - Homer, The Simpsons
"There's nothing wrong with having a plan, but when you try to force everyone to follow your plan, then well, you're really not any better than a gym teacher, are you?" - Tino, The Weekenders
"Outside of a dog, books are a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
"A gun rack? A gun rack? I don't even own ah gun, much less many guns that would neccesitate an entire rack." - Wayne, Wayne's World
"Far and away the best prize that offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who'll get one." - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
"I swear I'm going to make voodoo dolls of all of you tonight."
"He who loses faith, loses all." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"I remember thinking when I was younger, 'I'm never going to let a man put semen in me until I'm married.'" - Sue from OSU
"A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: 'Inside of me there two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time.' When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, 'The one I feed the most.'" - unknown
"I forgot my notes and book like the DIRTY SLUT that I am." - Chicago Mike, while rolling around on his bed in a sheet
"There ain't no time for lookin' pretty when you gotta go out and slop the hogs." - My sister's friend Sarah while staring dazedly at a disco ball on an AMVETS expedition
"Marge, don't discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals . . . except the weasel." - Homer, The Simpsons
"I've given you everything I wish you knew. I did it for me; I didn't do it for you." - Guster, X-Ray Eyes
"You know, there was a brief period in my life when I wanted to be a carnie." - Ben-yon, my cousin's lover
"I put juice in my pants for you. That's what puts me in control." - Chuck
"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky, but why, why can't it be mine?" - Pearl Jam, Black
"Such a weird belief. Lot of Christians wear crosses around their necks. You think when Jesus comes back he's gonna want to see a fucking cross, man?" - Bill Hicks
"I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis." - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"I'm a sexy bitch!" - Chuck, while describing my feelings about myself
"Chicken, you have the sexiest comb I've ever seen." - Bethany's roommate, Amanda, in a late-night conversation with Rocky the Chicken
"To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying amen to what the world tells you to prefer, is to have your soul kept alive." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"If music be the food of love, then this song tastes like getting dumped in your car on a rainy Sunday afternoon and what are you going to do about it? All your friends are out or off or ostracized because you made her the center of your life so instead you drive around trying to find the right balance of heat and cool to keep the windshield from fogging up, obstructing your view and sending you hurtling into a telephone pole or jogger or mailbox." - J.P (Check out his page - http://blightoboy.tripod.com/)
"There was a hint of non-dandiness in your voice." - The Other Mike, also known as Morty and Dave's Mike
"It's hard to concentrate . . . there's . . . so much fuckin' underwear." - Gavin Rossdale of Bush before singing Glycerine
"On the farm, we would shoot something that sounded that bad." - The BIG K.N, complaining about one of my suitemates's singing
"Can you say caw fee for us, please? Yeah, we think the American accent is cool!" - Ben Gillies of silverchair
"Okay . . . juicypants."
"Dammit, Smithers, this is brain surgery, not rocket science!" - Mr. Burns, The Simpsons
"There is no idea so good it can't be ruined by a few well-placed idiots." - Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert
"When you look into the abyss, what stares back at you reveals your true character. When you look into the llama, what stares back are assorted llama parts." - Michael Sheinbaum
"Don't smoke. Smoking is bad for you. I'm not inhaling! I'm just holding it to look cool!" - Kevin from Lit on smoking
"You touch me in ways that make me feel like my very sexuality is being threatened." - Rhonda, one of my former college suitemates, to me
"I don't put juice in my pants for no boys." - Chuck
"Sluts are bad. I don't like Julie." - Nick, describing the things that he learned while dating Evil Julie
"What's the difference between you and a mallard with a cold?"
"Wanna go to the roof and blow my whistle?" - Nick, clearly inviting me up for sex
"I'm a crotch-eater, personally." - The BIG K.N. when explaining that she likes to place her food in her lap when eating in my room
"If you bring your slap happiness in here, I will get my fist happiness all up in your face." - Suitemate Lauren to Suitemate Olivia, freshman year at OSU (much thanks to The BIG K.N.)
Scarecrow: I can�t make up my mind. I haven�t got a brain. Just straw.
"Perhaps there's not enough blood in my brain because it's all in my ridiculously large penis." - Finch, Just Shoot Me
"People who don't know general terms for genetalia are easily exploited." - Pat with the Hair, another OSU boy
"This is not your peehole we're talking about here. This is so much more." - My friend Eric, in a conversation on my vagina
"That one little thing, that small giant, stands in the way of scorage: the mighty mighty hymen. DESTROY IT! HYMENS ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS! If you die with a hymen in your possession, you go straight to hell. Look it up, it is SO true. Hymen and Hell. Closer together than you may think." - Clay, a Georgia friend, on why I should give it up to him
"If you have anal sex, it's obvoius that you don't love yourself enough. Dude, that's where your POOP is. That's not sexy!" - My friend Valerie in a conversation on why she'll never engage in anal sex
"But a woman and a man
"The dawn in the east looked like the light from some great fire that was burning under the edge of the world. The color was reflected in the globules of dew that sheathed the short gray pasture grass. Carl walked rapidly until he came to the crest of the second hill, where the Bergson pasture joined the one that had belonged to his father. There he sat down and waited for the sun to rise. It was just there that he and Alexandra used to do their milking together, he on his side of the fence, she on hers. He could remember exactly how she looked when she came over the close-cropped grass, her skirts pinned up, her head bare, a bright tin pail in either hand, and the milky light of the early morning all about her. Even as a boy he used to feel, when he saw her coming with her free step, her upright head and calm shoulders, that she looked as if she had walked straight out of the morning itself." - Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
"Your alter-ego is always dancing, Katie." � Ben Kolbe, OSU poet Jesus
"What's with today, today?" - Empire Records
"I beg your pardon?"
"Your ruse. Your cunning attempt to trick me." - Randall and a customer, Clerks
"I've been saying that since I was two. Woodchuck was my first word!" - Sheena and Nick, discussing the word woodchuck
"Cowabunga, Michael." - Chicago Mike, my extremely articulate friend, in a conversation with himself
"Women will like what I tell them to like." - Lisa and Homer, The Simpsons
"Make mine with boobs." - My high school English teacher and Jaymie, a student, during a particularly unruly day of class (Much thanks to Mike)
"Not another nickname!"
"But you're so nickname-able, Chu-Chu!" - Ellen and Chuck
"Dunno."
"One's a sick duck, and I don't remember the rest, but your mother's a whore." - Graham and Jarred, two OSU boys
Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven�t got a brain?
Scarecrow: I don�t know. But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don�t they? - The Wizard of Oz
can't pull apart without admitting the light
they made was mud and what honey they sucked
was wax and that the best they were
was nothing." - Beckian Fritz Goldberg, "Can't Anyone Untie Us?"