IVIV p. 36 sometimes a creeping fig is a nice house plant

[Michael Bailey]

Mark Kohut wrote:
> I like TRPs simple beautiful sketch of a happy domestic residential street, lot and kitchen in the second half of the top paragraph.
>
> I think the wiki post about the invasiveness of a 'creeping fig', as it may be in Vineland, is out of context for this scene, therefore is just
> an internal Kute Korrespondence.
>
> C,mon, someone argue with me.
>

"In the kitchen hung a creeping fig in a plastic pot"

aha! the inherent vice of the fig, its tendency to creep, is restrained by
the pot (just as the tendencies of the protagonist to perhaps be a creep,
are restrained and retrained by pot?) - its position in the kitchen
subjects it to ad libitum trimming and training and Foucaultian observation