watermelon sugar

A term used in the title and telling of Richard Brautigan’s 1968 novel In Watermelon Sugar. The author uses the term in a loose and quasi metaphorical way, never quite defining it. The common theme is that watermelon sugar makes up the good things in the characters’ lives.

“In watermelon sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar. I’ll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.”

“We make a great many things out of watermelon sugar here — I'll tell you about it — including this book being written near iDEATH.

All this will be gone into, travelled in watermelon sugar.” -Richard Brautigan

The novel In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan inspired the popular song “Watermelon Sugar” by Harry Styles. You should read it.

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