Apples

The most mundane things can have the most exquisite appeal when seen from the right angle, which may be upside down.  Look at an apple; now look at upside down.  Suddenly, it is not an apple but a piece of fruit on which the whole world is supported – a pillar of fiber, fructose and cellulose that the rest of the globe is now supported upon.  Apples could potentially be used as unassuming espionage packages of cyanide.  While they don’t contain cyanide itself, they do contain cyanogenic glycosides in the seeds (albeit, one would have to grind practically a bowl’s worth of apple seeds to create enough to have a lethal toxicity).  Apples were, in a way, one the first ‘green’ fuel sources (or ‘red’ or ‘yellow’) as they powered the high-octane gallop of horses for centuries until we invented the horseless carriage with actual octane fuel.    Apple would have also been a good investment endeavor in the 1980s, teaming up with Forest Gump in investing in “some fruit company.”  Things are not always as they seem, however.  More people have died by drowning in molasses than confirmed reports of people dying from coyote attacks (coyotes are not wolves – don’t think you are suddenly Liam Neeson in “The Grey”).  Intriguing, that the insignia that is one of the most recognizable icons in the world has one bight taken out of the apple is a symbol of innovation, progress, technological advancement and interconnectedness.  Perhaps even more intriguing is that a single bight of fruit (not necessarily an apple, though) led to disconnectedness, brokenness, and disruption for the entire world as well.