Pomology
I will eat the apple read Stephen’s note this morning. He is volunteering to play Eve. He wrote, I will eat the apple — but there are no apples in the house. We have no lascivious Honeycrisp, no bonny Braeburn, no upright Baldwin. We’re out of spry Granny Smiths, the skulking Northern Spy, or the mysterious Pink Lady. Stephen does have an Adam’s apple and I have an Apple computer, but you can’t compare apples and oranges. The note said, I will eat the apple. Perhaps Stephen’s chasing out the doctors. Perhaps he’s not falling far from the tree. Or he’s already eaten from the tree of knowledge: in Latin, malum means both apple and evil. I think Stephen is sending a warning. He means, I will protect you. He writes, I will eat the apple. By Kim Roberts
