Jarus: Clovus, why do we not try another establishment today, instead of our regular foray to The Haunch? After all, variety is the spice of life.
Clovus: I cannot agree with you, Jarus.
J: What? Ah, you jest no doubt, Clovus.
C: Indeed, no.
J: Now Clovus, you really cannot deny that variety is the spice of life. As human beings, we need variety. Why, I should not wonder that variety keeps me sane at times!
C: If variety keeps you sane, Jarus, then may fate bring you a bale of it. But no, I think that even at best, it is only marginally true that variety is the spice of life.
J: How so, Clovus?
C: Why, Jarus, do we add spice to our meal?
J: Well, I would say to keep from being bored with it.
C: Really Jarus? So, without spices you would not eat your food, for it is too boring?
J: Well, I would still eat my food to be sure, for I must eat.
C: Indeed you must. So adding spice to your food to keep from being bored is not really to the point, Jarus, for you must eat food, indeed you will eat food, whether bored or not. Is that not so?
J: Yes, of course. Well then, I would say we add spice to our meal for flavor.
C: You fair better now, Jarus, but still not to the point. Would you add spice to your meal to give it a bad flavor?
J: No, no I would not. I would add spice to my meal to give it a good flavor, to make it taste better.
C: I think you have hit at the truth of the matter, Jarus. We add spice to our meal so that it tastes better. Therefore, variety is not the spice of life, for variety may make life taste better, or worse, or neither. What is it that makes life 'taste' better, Jarus?
J: Well, I am not sure, Clovus.
C: Perhaps it is difficult to say one thing is the spice of life, one thing makes life 'taste' better, but I would suggest love is the spice of life. I speak of course of love in its true and pure form, not the 'love' of money and other such connotations we give to that word.
J: Yes, I see. Love, true love, makes life taste better. Well, I see we have arrived at The Haunch now, Clovus, and I for one am ready to eat. So by all means, let us dine here as usual, and engage ourselves in our usual conversations and debates with the usual denizens of this establishment!
C: A fine idea, Jarus, and for those reasons of course. Also, for it is Tuesday, and on Tuesdays our friend and proprietor receives his paprika shipment, and though I must eat, I eat well indeed when I have my paprika.
J: Ah, do you now, Clovus, do you now?!
