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The Oysters of Locmariaquer (1964)
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You are eating the sea, that's it, only the sensation of a gulp of sea water has been wafted out of it by some sorcery, and you are on the verge of remembering you don't know what, mermaids or the sudden smell of
kelp on the ebb tide or a poem you read once, something connected
with the flavor of life itself...
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Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.
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Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines...
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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Herbert Croly
Eleanor Clark
Born:
July 6, 1913
Died:
February 16, 1996
(aged 82)
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