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Anyone who has read the book Jitterbug Perfume knows of the magic of beets.
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Just don't follow that up with Jitterbug Perfume until they're at least 14.
Poop-Poop fusenumber8 2007
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You should be reading Jitterbug Perfume in a field somewhere, not getting in pissing contests with 30-year-old anklebiters on the internet.
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Tom Robbins, in his novel Jitterbug Perfume, calls the beet "the most intense of vegetables ... deadly serious."
Missoula Independent Ari LeVaux 2009
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Labels: Beet Salad, Beets, Cheese Recipes, Jitterbug Perfume, Rosh HaShana posted by Ayala Sender @ 8:35:00 AM
Beets and Time Travelling Ayala Sender 2007
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Labels: Beet Salad, Beets, Cheese Recipes, Jitterbug Perfume, Rosh HaShana posted by Ayala Sender @ 8:35:00 AM
Archive 2007-09-01 Ayala Sender 2007
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Ever read Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins I believe?
The Gods Are Bored Anne Johnson 2007
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While Pan perfume takes its inspiration from the fascinating tale of Pan as it’s told over the magical pages of Jitterbug Perfume – the fragrance itself is not as inspirational as it could have been.
Goats and Lavender Ayala Sender 2007
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While Pan perfume takes its inspiration from the fascinating tale of Pan as it’s told over the magical pages of Jitterbug Perfume – the fragrance itself is not as inspirational as it could have been.
Archive 2007-10-01 Ayala Sender 2007
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: Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay,
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The afterword of Tom Robbins 4th (1984) novel Jitterbug Perfume, which treats of the quest for immortality is priceless - indigo, indigoing, indigone.
"The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The onion has as many pages as War and Peace, every one of which is poignant enough to make a strong man weep, but the various ivory parchments of the onion and the stinging green bookmark of the onion are quickly charred by belly juices and bowl bacteria. Only the beet departs the body the same color as it went in.
Beets consumed at dinner will, come morning, stock a toilet bowl of crimson fish, their hue attesting to beet's chromatic immunity to the powerful digestive acids and thoroughgoing microbes that cat turn the reddest pimento, the orangest carrot, the yellowest squash into a single disgusting shade of brown.
At birth we are red-faced, round, intense, pure. The crimson fire of universal consciousness burns in us. Gradually, however, we are devoured by parents, gulped by schools, chewed up by peers, swallowed by social institutions, wolfed by bad habits and gnawed by age' and by the time we have been digested, cow style, in those six stomachs, we emerge a single disgusting shade of brown.
The lesson of the beet, then, is this: hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find that you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means.
Indigo
Indigoing.
Indigone."
Copyright 1984
March 10, 2011