What Victor Hugo Says about Eggs.
Victor Hugo was accustomed to say that there were few things more inherently equivocal than an egg, and that he never broke the shell of one without a dim apprehension that the unexpected might suddenly make its appearance.
Source: The Thorough Good Cook, 1895.
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Sherwood Anderson wrote a short story titled, ”The Egg” in 1921. It was a retrospective commentary on ambition and the frustration it can bring as told through the eyes of a young midwestern boy whose parents take up chicken farming. He describes in detail some of Hugo’s worst fears about what can come out of an egg, LOL! Here’s a link: http://thereycenter.org/uploads/3/4/3/2/3432754/the_egg_-_sherwood_anderson.pdf
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