The French writer Andre Gide Nobel Laureate in Literature in 1947 wrote The Fruits of the Earth while suffering from tuberculosis In the form of a long letter or discourse to an imaginary correspondent - Nathanael an idealized disciple and companion - it appears to be a hymn to the intoxicating pleasures of everyday life truly appreciable only by someone close to death for whom each breath is miraculous It speaks of sensations such as the taste o...