But I do like this language -- wheat and chaff -- with its widening pool of foreign genes, and since I never have had any occasion to say "comestible,” it was pleasurable to think it. (Grace Paley)

But I do like this language -- wheat and chaff -- with its widening pool of foreign genes, and since I never have had any occasion to say "comestible,” it was pleasurable to think it.

Grace Paley

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