And so the session goes, Smith grabbing nuggets of information from the game film like a child plucking apples from a tree.
Apple Picker: As though you were plucking apples from a tree, reach up with your right arm, then your left, stretching as far as you comfortably can while sitting in your chair.
We see Hamburger naming and caressing the species among his windfalls, recalling an enthusiasm shared with Ted Hughes, plucking apples from his trees while late flowers nod and lazy insects buzz around him in the dog days.
Eve would have a field day plucking apples at this Eden in lower Manhattan!
On the other hand, if you pluck many apples without eating them, pack them into crates and load them on a truck for money, that's work.
In "The Garden of Eden" painted in 1860, mountains and rivers recede into a vanishing point, pairs of animals graze peaceably, parrots perch in the trees, and Adam, seen from behind, stands among the animals, oblivious to the serpent and to Eve, who, facing front, brazenly plucks two apples from the Tree of Knowledge.
The one glorious exception is the small private study in the duke's suite — the Studiolo — a masterpiece of trompe l'oeil intarsia (inlaid wood) so ingenious and exact you're tempted to pluck an apple from the basket of fruit perched by a window (a similar intarsia studiolo taken from Federico's palace in Gubbio is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York).
We might see a cow grazing in a field, and despite the fact that grazing is what the cow has to do to survive, we don't think of that as really working, any more than we'd consider it work to stand in an orchard, pluck an apple and bite into it.
His is the arm that bends the tree so those at the bottom might pluck the apple of prosperity.
This includes a Cranach, but it is described as "Eve plucking the apple of Paradise" - Hoffmann misunderstood or misremembered the subject, which has Venus under the apple tree while Cupid, holding the honeycomb, complains at being stung by the bees.
