Yummy!! … ” I was eating bread and pomodori. These tomatoes tasted nothing like English tomatoes.” — Geoff Dyer, Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence.
To travel is to eat. We were tucking into our lunch, which is to say Laura was munching crackers and I was eating bread and pomodori. These tomatoes tasted nothing like English tomatoes. They tasted tomatoey. I ate them one after another, the taste like a memory of childhood which actually turned out not to be a taste but a smell of taste, the reddening green smell – I had it exactly – of my Uncle Harry’s greenhouse in Shurdington where the air ripened under glass.
— Geoff Dyer, Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence
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- Inspired by: I picked up the book after reading “Vivian Gornick: ‘I Couldn’t Finish Michelle Obama’s Becoming‘: (The Guardian, March 26, 2021): “The last book that made me laugh Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer is a brilliant book. For me…
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