Speak, Fruitcake

In 1904 JJ Thomson proposed the plum pudding model of the atom.
Thomson's model pictured the atom as a positively-charged cloud
studded with electrons, like plums ensconced in a pudding.

Question: Do holiday foods make good metaphors?

Conjecture: Fruitcake as metaphor for memory.




Let "fruitcake" stand for "memory" in the following.

1. Fruitcake is of a dense, obscure texture.

2. Fruitcake is studded with unpleasant stimuli.

3. Fruitcake is absorbent.

4. Fruitcake is not linear, but circular.

5. The constituent parts of a fruitcake may be visible, but its
origin remains obscure.


Austrian philosopher Otto Weininger:

"The source of all error in life is invariably a lack of [fruitcake]"


Q.E.D.



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