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The Power Book

Again, not the computer. This summer/fall I read The Power Book by Jeanette Winterson (her books are scholarly queer/feminist classics I guess) and what sticks in my mind the most was the story about the tulip. "In the sixteenth century the first tulip was imported to Holland from Turkey. I know — I carried it myself." (There is more of an excerpt at that link to Powell's)