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Category Archives: Mortality

Quick Hit: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin has a very bad cat

October 3, 2014by Sara Davis 3 Comments

Here’s something silly for a Friday afternoon: I was reading about still life painting (again!) and came across some compositions by French painter Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. Chardin painted in various genres […]

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Consumer Culture, Mortality, Painting

Search Term Sampler: “Late August”

September 26, 2014by Sara Davis Leave a comment

The term that led some anonymous seeker to my site: margaret atwood sex plums exploding That sounds exciting! I’ve definitely written about plums before, and Margaret Atwood does write some […]

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Disgust, Fruit, Mortality, Poetry, Search Term Sampler

Odes to Plums

September 8, 2013by Sara Davis 6 Comments

“The Word Plum” by Helen Chasin The word plum is delicious pout and push, luxury of self-love, and savoring murmur full in the mouth and falling like fruit taut skin pierced, bitten, provoked […]

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Fruit, Memory, Mortality, Poetry
Skull II by Dimitri Tsykalov

All is vanitas

March 27, 2013by Sara Davis Leave a comment

This week at Table Matters, I have a piece up about vanitas paintings, particular those that involve food, and how they try to have it both ways: these beautiful, sumptous, […]

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Fruit, Mortality, Painting, Sculpture

Funereal Foods

July 2, 2011by Sara Davis Leave a comment

In the summer, we tend to reach for lighter fare.  Fruits, salads…. detective fiction?  On the surface, murder and mystery is an odd choice for beach reading.  On the other […]

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Mortality, Novels, Rituals and Customs

Federico Garcia Lorca’s alimentary allusions

May 5, 2011by Sara Davis 2 Comments

It’s difficult for me to write about Federico Garcia Lorca because I do not read Spanish and struggle with the reliability of translations. But I keep coming to this poetry […]

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Anthropomorphism, Fruit, Literature, Mortality, Poetry

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