![]() ![]() ![]() Whatever its qualities, they are easily overlooked most of the other characters, and especially the women, have beets delivered to them night and day and show barely any curiosity about them. ![]() Meanwhile, the narrator keys it to creative practice. For instance, Alobar ascribes a warrior aspect to the vegetable and is dismayed at seeing it used as a mere dye ingredient. To everyone else in the novel, the beet is misused or ignored, its mysteries locked away. The beet’s virtues are extolled by exactly three voices in the narrative: Alobar, Wiggs Dannyboy, and the narrator (whom we might assume to be Tom Robbins himself). The beet crops up throughout the narrative as a vegetable of mystery, endowed with incredible powers while maintaining a humble exterior. ![]()
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