einstein's eggplant

Just when I thought I had finished plumbing the dubious depths of eggplants...

Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Albert Einstein)

 

the cranky eggplant

The Japanese words are read heso-magari (literally: a belly-button that is crooked or out-of-line), an expression used for a perverse or contrary person (crank, screwball, uncooperative, etc).  I've illustrated this expression before with various twisted vegetables, and this is the eggplant version. From my Funny Words series.

eggplant proverb

Oya no iken to nasu no hana: sen ni hitotsumo muda wa nai. The words translate roughly to "A parent's advice and an eggplant blossom: There is not one in a thousand that goes to waste." Meaning: As an eggplant blossom can always be counted on to become an eggplant, so too, advice from a parent never goes to waste.

beware the stifled imagination

“I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.” Ursula K. LeGuin