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MOTHER EARTH Our earthen dish is seven parts water, one part China, and a tiny bit japanned. Its spread of foods is well-presented: ice sculptures at both poles, and licking-salt elsewhere. Give me a lever large enough-- a cosmic fork or skewer--and I would take it to a table: its sherbet fizz of surf, the creamy ice-cones of its toothy alps, the spice of islands dotted here and there like cloves jammed in an onion. Turning this common dish as slowly as a day, I'd taste the ...