Words as Seeds

"Can you grow kumquats here?" Wei-Ching asked. "I've always liked kumquats."
"I can grow just about anything you like!" Hsun-ching boasted. "You tell me what you want, and I'll plant it."
Wei-Ching laughed and said, "Too bad you can't plant books."
Mark Salzman in The Laughing Sutra


But if you could, what would you plant? What would grow out of it?

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