A commentary on “Tomato Can” was delivered today by USPS. The commentary includes several objects: a can opener and a paring knife. It also includes several entities that can be described by mass/non-count nouns: rice (from Arson Mills, whose grits I remember fondly), alphabet pasta (with the whole alphabet (!) not just ABC123 like the last batch I saw), and beans (now that I think of it, beans is actually plural, not a mass noun). The two remaining entities have handwritten text on them, which I will reproduce for you here.
…
Dear Emily,
Here’s hoping you
appreciate these objects,
their essence, their utility,
their form and function.
Consider contemplating
them, without a commit-
ment to do so, for five
minutes. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Consider what it
means to be designed
to open a can or
pare a piece of fruit
before and after
having been used
to do so.
Consider, too, the
story of the tulip
quilt.
Consider having versus
creating vs. realizing potential.
Love, Mummy xo
…
FK mocha mousse cake
refrigerate -
might
be messy