Plum quotes 1 November 2005, 22:42

One I don’t necessarily agree with (plums in season are the food of the gods), and the other is only half of a comparison with another artist (Winslow Homer), but I just liked the turn of phrase.

I like to think of prunes as plums that have been bettered by hardship, plums made wiser by old age and wizening.
—Orangette, Seattle
When a Manet woman reads a book, she is situated within a city and a whole set of social relations defined by the hat she wears, the train behind her, all conjuring a social world of ambivalent attitudes as perfectly as a page of Proust.
—Adam Gopnik, “Homer’s Wars”, The New Yorker, October 31, 2005
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