Reading The Joy of Cooking read aloud reminded me of Gertrude Stein. I knew she wrote a long treatise on food so I just looked it up online. I found something from Tender Buttons (is it a play?) entitled FOOD.
In the section called Breakfast she writes:
A shining breakfast, a breakfast shining, no dispute, no practice, nothing, nothing at all.
The reading of the cookbook got me thinking of the importance of throwing in a random non-sequitor - a novel and unexpected surprise - to jump start the creative process.
And though we've had our share of speaking and noise-making in improvisations, our recent improvs have featured my senses of seeing and feeling (and maybe even smell...someone was wearing lovely shampoo...) - and much less my ability to hear. The reading of the cookbook shook that up. Forced me to make use of a sense I had been ignoring.
One line that popped out was under CRANBERRIES:
A remarkable degree of red means that, a remarkable exchange is made.
What a lovely line...and plenty more to be found in the banquet of words written by Stein...
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