The Parable of the Potato Peeler (or How I Risked Excommunication for Horizontal Heresy)
I must have been seven, maybe eight years old. It was midday on an ordinary Sunday, one of those 1980s Sundays that smelled of barley coffee and "Domenica Sportiva" blaring. As usual, lunch was drawing to a close with the ritual of fruit: a few apples in the center of the table and my mother, with painstaking patience,…
