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Date: Thu, Nov 30, 2006, 03:32 AM PST

In 1732, Samuel Pepys was traveling by boat down the Thames when he spotted the remains of a half-eaten apple bobbing in the river. Inspired by this humbler version of Proust's madeleine, Pepys mused on the apple's origins: "My mind drift'd towards more luminary thoughts as to wheretofore that apple -- Eve's maleficent fruit -- originated from...<br><br><a href='http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/11/30/arts/16791.shtml' target='_blank'>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/11/30/arts/16791.shtml</a><br><br>

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