According to the 18th-century writer Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, melons are striped because Nature intended for us to share them equally:
This is the same who wrote,
“I hang on everything, and let the threads float here and there, like a spider, til I can weave my web.”
« Je m’accroche à tout, et laisse flotter çà et là des fils, comme l’araignée, jusqu’à ce que je puisse ourdir ma toile. »
Hang on, friends. It’s almost ripe.
WOID XXIV-49
July 5, 2025; revised July 10, 2025