Re: Prize Pest
- To: g*@ker.forthnet.gr, m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: Prize Pest
- From: S* G*
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:14:14 PST
>Oxalis pes-caprae is undeniably indestructible but somehow seems too
>humble and too benign an opponent, spreading soft tender and lemony at
>our feet in great swaths of winter brightness. (Besides, Janet, it adds
>a delectable "tang" to the greens of our winter pittas here in the North
>of Greece)
>My vote would be for the heroic blackberry bramble that challenges to
>hand-to-hand combat, leaving us battle-scarred and triumphant with a
>sense of accomplishment.
>Cali Doxiadis
>Corfu, Greece
>
agree that blackberry is terrible - particularly if there is a big old patch
of it - but it can be beaten - it is the exactly that apparently benign and
insidious nature of oxalis pes-caprae that makes it so terrible - what did
Hannah Arent say about the banality of evil???
Ps - can you really eat oxalis?? Seems rather like a kind of revenge - kinda
like the movie 'Eat the Rich'?
Susan George
McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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