• All those little congruences and arabesques you prepared with such delicate anticipatory pleasure are gobbled up as if by pigs at a pastry cart.

    John Updike: All those little congruences and arabesques you prepared with such delicate anticipatory pleasure are gobbled up as if by pigs at a pastry cart.
    John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, p.57, Univ. Press of Mississippi