A Melon for Ecstasy is a 1971 novel written by John Fortune and John Wells. The title is derived from a fictional Turkish proverb, "A woman for duty / A boy for pleasure / But a melon for ecstasy."
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“No melon is perfectly round; no person is completely perfect.”
—Chinese proverb.
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