The Biology of Luck (2013)
“The act of raising flowers, of trellising roses, of laying out begonia beds and watering window-box petunias, also the art of arrangement, of melting paraffin into silver vases, edging nosegays with paper frills, weaving wreaths and chaplets, fashioning corsages and sprays, transforming isolated clippings into breathtaking mosaics—all of these endeavors bespeak the feminine. But for the brief interval when Mother Nature’s magical blossoms lie constrained in tepid water, packed together like refugees behind a merchant’s counter, each flower bears the frown of subservience, the imprimatur of commerce, which defines it as a serf to the patrimony.
Starstine knows that truth about floral shops: that they are more virile than smoke-filled conference rooms, more exclusive than the floors of the stock exchange, more macho than conventions of Hells Angels at interstate truck stops. They are American’s answer to Victorian drawing rooms. For the purchase of cut flowers anticipates candlelit dinn...ers, hospital stays, theatrical productions, memorial services, promotion banquets, share holders’ meetings, honeymoons, hearses, hours in seedy motel rooms, days in probate court, the full retinue and regalia of things men orchestrate, men pay for, men rely upon, the things men crave when they send women anonymous love notes, as though each time a man buys a woman a bouquet, he experiences a minor orgasm.MoreLess
Starstine knows that truth about floral shops: that they are more virile than smoke-filled conference rooms, more exclusive than the floors of the stock exchange, more macho than conventions of Hells Angels at interstate truck stops. They are American’s answer to Victorian drawing rooms. For the purchase of cut flowers anticipates candlelit dinn...ers, hospital stays, theatrical productions, memorial services, promotion banquets, share holders’ meetings, honeymoons, hearses, hours in seedy motel rooms, days in probate court, the full retinue and regalia of things men orchestrate, men pay for, men rely upon, the things men crave when they send women anonymous love notes, as though each time a man buys a woman a bouquet, he experiences a minor orgasm.MoreLess
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