"They get twice as many apples per dunam," he says, "but ours are twice as tasty .Beyond the price the apples fetch ($6m last year, passed back in cash) and the political capital both countries make out of them, the Golan Druze, with almost every family owning an orchard, say they and their apples have a part to play in a gradual, mutual de-demonisation that goes with peacemaking.
Their apple crop now fetches $30,000 in a good year, a decent income by Indian standards.
Gödel, meanwhile, dispatched his nightclub singer wife Adele to fetch him an apple every day, inevitably refused to eat it because of its imperfections, and finally starved himself to death to prove that he had free will.
In the myth of the Greek hero Heracles, one of Heracles' 12 labours was the fetching of the golden apples kept by the Hesperides.
The software apparently both understands the context and fetches related content — a picture of an apple, according to the patent application drawing.
A fully functioning Apple 1 hit the auction block last week at RR Auction in Boston and fetched $300,000 from an anonymous buyer — a relative steal for a highly coveted piece of computer history that helped launch a trillion-dollar company.
They save a drooping apple tree by having River run towards a gurgling stream (I was hoping it was a brook instead) to fetch water for the tree.
Instead, Alfonso climbs a mountain on horseback, fetches his own apples and peels them with a sword.
In "The First Apple, Fetching Prices That May Crash the System," Steve Lohr writes about the astronomical prices that working Apple-1 canputers can fetch at auctions these days.
"Very fetching," he commented.
