Here they are
– the most amazing fruits.
The ideal fruits. There are no
better fruits than these ones, because there
can not be any better fruits. There can not be better
fruits than these ones, because these are the ideal ones,
and nothing can be better than an ideal. An ideal is just an
ideal.
Nothing compares to an ideal. Among all fruits watermelons are the
closest to an ideal. So, the ideal fruits look much like
watermelons.
They are as big as medium size watermelons, and though a
little bigger or
a little bit smaller specimens can be found sometimes, the
differences are
really slight, enough slight to be negligible, and to state they
all are of the
same size is not far from the truth. Their form is with no
doubt more regular.
There are almost no egg-like specimens, as there are
neither oblong, nor almost
cylinder-like specimens – it can be said with no
hesitation and no fear they all
have the same form and this form is almost an ideal sphere.
However neither size nor
form make them ideal. They have thick, dark green
skin, cut and open they show red
interior, flaming or bloody or sun-setting-rising, as you like.
And then the first,
absolutely essential difference can be seen clearly: no
seeds! No tiny, black seeds
which seem numberless. You don't need to dig in the delicate
pulp. Nor you need to spit
out anything. Nothing disturbs you to delight in the
taste, nothing grabs your attention,
nothing makes your teeth and tongue be careful, reserved,
though they would like to be
reckless and unbridled, not limited in detecting this
taste..... Taste. That's it. Yes.
This is next, also essential, difference. These fruits taste
exactly like watermelons,
more exactly: like the core, centre of a watermelon. The
centre is the sweetest – the
closer to the skin the less sweet the pulp is. Nothing
like that here! The sweetness
remains the same all the time, in any part of the fruit. And if there was no skin? If
only the pulp was growing? Unless the skin was edible and
sweet. But something must
keep the pulp stable. There must be any construction,
something enabling to cut
a slice and held it in your hand. But you could grasp the pulp
with your hands.
Put your fingers, your palms in it like in a cotton wool,
like in a foam, eat
handfuls of it. Then your hands would be sticky and dirty.
Yet despite dirty
hands this would be absolutely wonderful. The hands can be
washed... But a
ball, a sphere, so sweet and bright, would attract clouds
of hungry, never
satisfied insects in the largest
variety of their developmental phases.
And although they themselves would fascinate with their
beauty, and
if not with beauty then with fantastic shapes and colours,
in this
very moment they would be hideous and nasty. And dust and
specks of any kind would stick to it, too. So, out of
these two bad things a thick dark green skin seems
better than the crust of dirt. Dirt and dust?
Here? In Liberland? Unbelievable.
Incredible.
What is the name of this ideal fruit?
Well, it has no name. It's
ideal, isn't it?