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August 23, 2007
Tree:Apple :: Mother:Baby
I was just eating an apple and I noticed the stem. Apparently I was doing that thing where you look at something you've seen a million times and all of a sudden it looks different.
I noticed that the end of the stem was very rough and then I thought about why that might be. It occurred to me that it is because it is the [now defunct] channel of nourishment for the apple when it was growing on the tree, much like the umbilical cord between a fetus and its mother. It also reminded me of that few weeks after a child is born when the umbilical cord is drying up and getting ready to fall off. Gross maybe, but it seemed more interesting than gross to me at the time I was first thinking it. A dried up umbilical cord and an apple stem are very similar. Then I started to wonder why I had never thought of an apple and its stem like this before.
Pearls of "wisdom" by Jamie at August 23, 2007 02:25 PM
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The reason you've never thought of an apple and its stem like this before will probably have something to do with you mixing Red Bull in your double latte this morning. I will wait for you to verify that.
Otherwise, you're anthropomorphizing just a bit here. An apple isn't really a tree baby -- botanically, fruit is not offspring, but part of the plant itself, usually the ovary. It's part of the system for the plant to reproduce, not the result of reproduction.
Way to daydream though.
Posted by: The Future Mrs. Fleshy Endocarp at August 26, 2007 01:30 AM
"...mixing Red Bull in your double latte this morning."
- Holy crap!! I am SO doing that tomorrow morning. Who knew that on top of everything else you were also a brilliantly creative barista?
And no, I'm not anthropomorphizing at all. I wasn't suggesting that an apple is a tree baby ... thus the use of phrases such as "much like", "reminded me of" and "similar", and the attempted use of Aristotelian format (yes, I corrected it) in the blog title. I'd say I was being more metaphoric than anthropomorphic. However I'm giving you an 'A' in Botany that is good at any university in the Andromeda Galaxy.
Yes, my daydreaming skills are finely honed. Which is probably why most of my other skills are not. :P
Posted by: Jamie at August 26, 2007 11:24 AM