Photo: Selvin Chance
The Adventures of Greggery Peccary:...Oh here comes Greggery, little Greggery Peccary,It all comes full-circle.
The nocturnal gregarious wild swine.
A Peccary is a little pig with a white collar that usually
hangs around between Texas and Paraguay.
Sometimes ranging as far west as Catalina,...
Greggery Peccary takes the elevator up to the 83rd floor of a
grim, grey, evil-looking building with a sign on the front
reading "BIG SWIFTY AND ASSOCIATES...TREND MONGERS".
And what might you ask is a TREND MONGER?
Well a TREND MONGER is a person, who dreams up a trend, like
"THE TWIST", or "FLOWER POWER".
And spreads it throughout the land using all the frightening
little skills that scientists made available...
...Greggery turned & strode nonchalantly into his
dinky little office, with the desk, and the catalog, and the
very hip water pipe, and proceeded with a vigor and
determination know only to piglets of a similarly diminutive
proportion to single-handedly invent the calendar. With his
eyes rolled heavenward, and his little shiny pig hoofs on the
desk, Greggery ponders the question of eternity, and
fractional divisions thereof, as mysterious angelic voices,
sing to him from a great distance, providing the necessary
clues for the construction of his new thrilling new trend...
Greggery receives information that the greatest living
philostofer known to man kind is currently in possession of
the very information in question. And furthermore this
information could be his if only Greggery would attend a
special therapeutic group assembly. Classes now forming and
available at a special low low introductory fee and now here
he is the greatest living philostofer known to man kind....
8 comments:
Almost all of them are edible, and delicious, depending on your tastes. This one, however, cannonball fruit, is apparently not eaten. The flowers are sometimes used as an herbal tea, but I don't know of the fruit being used for anything in particular.
In other words, this blog has a definite edible fruit bias.
At least it's good for an agouti or a fruit bat. I think for every humanly inedible fruit you post you ought to show us its actual eater. A fruit is nothing without its disperser.
(though strictly it's the seed and not the fruit that one talks about getting dispersed. so sue me)
MT - That would require research and stuff. That's hard.
I think monkeys eat cannonball fruit, but I'm not sure.
Hard? But see what riches await...
"Detailed observations of seed dispersers have not been made for C. guianensis, but peccaries have been observed consuming the pulp, and seeds apparently pass through mammalian digestive systems unscathed. We hypothesize that sulfur compounds in Lecythidaceae fruits may attract mammalian seed dispersers."*
You're not going to get prose like that by quoting Kipling.
Sorry, forgot: Peccaries.
O.K., O.K.. I've learned my lesson. Regards to Greggery.
Zappa! Didn't recognize it, until a little search engine whispered it in my ear.
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