A cherry pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to edible to cold to stale to mouldy, and finally to a post-pie state where only history can tell you that it was once considered food. The pie is a parable of human life.
![A cherry pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to edible to cold to stale to mouldy, and finally to a post-pie state where only history can tell you](http://cdn.quoteddaily.com/images/nick-harkaway/a-cherry-pie-is----ephemeral-from-the-moment-it-emerges-from-the-oven-it-begins-a-steep.jpg)