Posted by Ann Bonny on February 02, 2001 at 13:18:24:
"Is there a greater marvel than an oyster? When it is penetrated by a grain of sand, or by a little stone that hurts it, the oyster doesn't weep, doesn't cry, doesn't despair. Day by day it converts its pain into a pearl, a chef-d'oeuvre of Nature." (Bruno Ferrero)