Tuscanini

James Davidson

  • Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit by Mort Rosenblum
    Absolute, 320 pp, £14.95, November 1997, ISBN 1 899791 36 1

At a party once in Highbury I opened a door, stepping into what I thought might be a bathroom and found myself in an olive grove. Two other guests had found it before me. The smoke from their cigarettes hung around the branches, like an emanation from the leaves. I would have liked to spend some time there, but it was clear I had interrupted a private conversation and the roof was small; a minute or two was the most I could manage of casual lingering. I said something about how warm it was and went back inside.

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