Bread is aerated sawdust, painted ghostly white. It owns all the nutriment of a breath of its principal ingredient, air.
Robert Ruark Carolinian
Source
p. 255
- work
- "Nothing Works and Nobody Cares" (1965)
- year
- 1965
- locator
- p. 255
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“Bread is aerated sawdust, painted ghostly white. It owns all…” Robert Ruark. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-DDAB1481D4. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/ddab1481d4
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