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An orange ruled the world

The Orange, a short and perfectly-formed magic-realist story by one Benjamin Rosenbaum: (brought to my attention by bOING bOING)
An orange ruled the world.
It was an unexpected thing, the temporary abdication of Heavenly Providence, entrusting the whole matter to a simple orange.
The orange, in a grove in Florida, humbly accepted the honor. The other oranges, the birds, and the men in their tractors wept with joy; the tractors' motors rumbled hymns of praise.

I can see this story as a short film, done in the style of Jeunet & Caro (think the rhythmic motion sequences in Delicatessen or somesuch).

There are 1 comments on "An orange ruled the world":

Posted by: El Bizarro http://bizarro.typepad.com Tue Jul 20 02:56:36 2004

Beautiful, just beautiful. It should feature a few musical numbers methinks as well...