A Great Pair
Oil on canvas
8 x 8 inches (20 x 20 cm)
VIRGIL: "To start with, a pear has an unusual shape. It's round and fat on the bottom, but tapered on top... A pear has no buttocks. Its bottom is round."
BEATRICE: "So how does it stay up?"
VIRGIL: "It doesn't. A pear either dangles from a tree or lies on its side...
The crunchiness of a pear is far more appealing. It is giving and fragile. To eat a pear is akin to...kissing."
VIRGIL: "Oh, my. It sounds so good."
-- Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel.
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