PHIL 020 – Section 11
Le Pain – Francis Ponge (Bread translated by Lee Fahnestock)
The crust on a loaf of French bread is a marvel, first off, because of the almost panoramic
impression it gives, as although one had the Alps, the Taurus range, or even the Andean
Cordillera right in the palm of the hand.
In that light, an amorphous belching mass was slipped into the stellar oven on our behalf, and
there while hardening, it molded into valleys, ridges, foothills, rifts…And from then on, all those
