the orange had been peeled into one long, unbroken rind
this evening, we were having satsuma mandarins after dinner--as is our custom as the holidays approach--and i removed the peel from mine carefully, without damage, into this long, curly rind. i felt very good about myself for a few minutes, remembering the scene in "sleepless in seattle" where tom hanks says "she could peel an apple in one long, single strip..." while the camera shows meg ryan peeling an apple in exactly that way. then i remembered a web site where someone made maps of the world using flattened orange rinds as models for the three-dimensional spherical projections. and then we bought some carpet, but anyone can do that...











