October 26, 2015 - 17:20
“You should keep the book. Maybe you can learn something about your heritage and inclinations”
“You want to know something my heritage has taught me? If you’re a cactus, you’d better hang on to your spines”. Pg 178
“ What was it? A sense, as keen as the primary five, but more abstract. A feeling flowed through his body, tickling his genitals and quickening his pulse. It ran from him like a dormant taproot, newly awakened, starved and probing deep. He opened his beer and lingered in the Garden, and then it hit him. It wasn’t lust. It was nostalgia.” Pg 185
“the reason you clone rather than plant from seed is because potatoes, like human children, are wildly heterozygous. Lloyd taught me that word when I was eight. It simply means that if you try to propagate a domesticated potato using seed, sexually, chances are it will not grow true to type. Instead it will regress, displaying a haphazard variety of characteristics, reminiscent of its uncultivated potato progenitors- it may prove superior to the parent plant or wildly inferior. At eight, gazing up at my father’s face, I didn’t know which was worse.” Pg 57