32 33 Everyone ready to beatify it, stunned by the presence of potassium and vitamin B-6. Uninterrupted standing ovation for its capability to maintain blood pressure within the right parameters, contributing to the synthesis of cysteine as to the metabolism of homocysteine. Ok, let's give the apple five minutes more of handclaps, but then let's take a break from its blind exaltation. We need to reset the a priori judgment to resort to the right objectivity and, finally, we need to watch it as if for the first time, taking into account also its dark side, which sees apple as a tool of evil intentions, that – by its only appearance – triggers events of tragedy. We need to reset the judgment, to be able to see the perspective of potassium, but also the worm’s one. Apple can indeed be an infamous fruit. To have new eyes for the situation is a practice that makes us fascinating, a useful-for-growth experience. An unconventional game where teachings increase as we advance with age, where already made progress does not diminish enthusiasm. We do not have to set ourselves final goals in re-elaborating an opinion, we should not investigate already having in mind who the killer is. At the end of the path we can also return to the starting point, to the initial evaluation, but in the meantime we have grown while considerations and discoveries have increased. It is about confrontation, therefore about intelligence. In order to update a consolidated opinion, it takes two initial exercises: the first one provides for the erasure from our mind of the image which we already have of the object of investigation with its set of features. We do not have to forget how it is done or which elements it is made of, but only to format the pre-packed idea we have of him, her, or it. Second exercise relates to the taking back of characteristics and elements forming the object of investigation describing them as archivists would, detailing without any comment. In the course of this procedure we will be able to discover a lot of new stuff, we will understand how things and people are made, how they react to impulses and why. A third condition is added to these two primary phases: to operate without prejudice, without putting one's vision between the eyes and the subject. This sort of approach will act as verification of the genuine validity and completeness of the image we have about the apple. Fruit also infamous, not just a natural nutrient of tremendous value. By breaking down and setting up apple’s pieces, it will be clear how many cues triggering suspicion and antipathy we will be able to find. • First name: malum, Latin noun, neuter gender, second declension. Malum as an extension for fruit. Apple is so good, but its signifier is the same as evil. Therefore, it must already have been clear to the whole humanity that fruit should not have been underestimated, it was to be thoroughly investigated going beyond its nutritional potential, plumbed by chemistry and elevated to its exclusive yardstick. Apple is a two-faced fruit, good on earth but nasty for the ultra-terrestrial. • Apple has two faces, in primis, because it is a 'false fruit', as biology says. Real fruit is the core, the one who truly works to protect and nourish the seed. Apple is nothing but the result of ovary and receptacle’s growth; therefore, to define it as a fruit is not correct. And so on. • Apple as a symbol of envy, instrument of the villains. When a twist is needed in the plot, often an apple appears in the middle of the tangle. The Witch handed it to Snow White, Eris threw it during Thetis and Peleus’ wedding, it was elected forbidden fruit in the interpretations of the Old Testament, it was placed by the bailiff Gessler on the head of William Tell’s son. It did not always go so well. Happy endings came for the Disney fairytale as for the liberation of Switzerland, while after apple’s appearances divine scenarios just saw human loneliness and epic destruction. • By a potassium cyanide-poisoned apple, in the 50s of last century, Alan Turing – father of information technology, convicted for homosexuality – committed suicide. • An apple shall also take the doctor away, but on the other hand it leads to a lot of troubles. Even Let it be, distributed by the mythological Apple Records, and iPhone bickered for its shape. From this kind of detached analysis, one first qualitative datum emerges: apple shows its worst side when humanity writes about it. Despite its noteworthy amount of fiber, potassium, copper and vitamin B-6, in epic facts it triggers hatred, or it becomes its symbol. Thus there is a valid reason to be wary of the apple, or even to save it from the venomousness by which man contaminates it, but – by dint of commending it – we were no more capable to figure it out. In the same way we have lost golden details of fruit and its plant, starting with the fact that it is the first food to nourish the newborn immediately after mother's milk. It is precisely when an element benefits from a high universal judgment that one begins to lose lucidity in analysing it and, sooner or later, reconsideration will be needed. Always well-commenting, as well as constantly critical remarking, we won’t be able to properly measure reality, inevitably shedding some fragments along the way. When a man stops asking, he stumbles into the dark and won’t be no longer capable to see the most beautiful hidden facets. That happens to be the case of apples too. Some may indeed be astonished by the following statements. In the world, about 7 thousand varieties of apples are being grown, for a whole production of 75.5 billion tons. The first apple tree, the Malus sieversii, sprouted in Kazakhstan, developed by the first roots of this plant just 65 million years ago. The documentarian Catherine Peix said that «A forest of apples is like humanity, rich in diversity». And if someone already came across these details, in a few know how to describe the Tien Shan, mountain range where Almaty stands, 'the place of apples', Kazakh city indicated as the place of origin of the first Malus sieversii. Yet it is the soil of one of the most widespread fruits in the world. The Almaty area extends from 500 to 1,700 meters above sea level, offering unique vistas framed by forests of apple trees, bushy and single trunk plants, three centuries old specimens still bearing fruits, some of them with an unexpected purple pulp. The wide variety of fruits, with their stunning chromatic scales of blooming and maturation, made this place one of the most similar to the Garden of Eden – and, talking about apple trees, it does not astound us. Who knows what these wild orchards would have been today, if the Red Army had not cut down 70% of its surface just to obtain wood. Apples cannot be trusted; or better, it is essential to inquire about how much involved human and/or divine are, because it is only by adhering to the cure of Mother Nature – and not only with regard to the apple – that this plant can give its best. to the core al nocciolo
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