“think about it,” she said. “they are big and foamy and look sort of like peanuts. but they are orange and peanuts aren’t orange. and if they taste like anything, it’s banana. bananas aren’t orange, and they most certainly don’t look like peanuts”… true to its circus origins, the candy itself was a mockery of candy. it said, i’m not what I look like, and i’m not what i taste like. so what? life is a farce. send in the clowns.”
—candy and me, hilary liftin
