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Mark Twain on watermelon

Recent output from the Linux "fortune" command:

The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of the world's luxuries, king by the grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

Twain had obviously never tried mango or fresh pineapple, and his recollection of Genesis 3 was a little off as well! :-)

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