W. Somerset Maugham
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Probably the highest, ripest, and most acceptable form of worship is that performed with a knife and fork.
And whoever on the resurrection morning can produce from amongst what the lumber of his cast off flesh, a thin coated and elastic stomach.
Showing evidences of daily stretchings done in the body.
We'll find it his readiest passport and best credential.
We believe that God will not hold him guiltless who eats with his knife, but if the deadly steel be always well laden with toothsome morsels, divine justice will be tempered with mercy to that man's soul.
When the author of The Lost Tales represented Sisyphus as capturing his guest, the king of terrors.
And stuffing the old glutton with meat and drink, until he became a jolly rubicund.
Tun bellied death.
He gave us a tale which needs no hake fabula doce to point out the moral.
We verily believe that Shakespeare writ down Fat Jack at his last gasp.
As babbling, not O Green Fields, but O Green Turtle, and that that starvling Coley Sibur
Altered the text from sheer envy at a good man's death.
To die well we must live well.
is a familiar platitude.
Morality is, of course, best promoted by the good quality of our fare.
But quantitative excellence is by no means to be despised.
Goteris Paribus the man who eats much is a better Christian than the man who eats little, and he who eats little will pursue a more uninterrupted course of benevolence than he who eats nothing.
End of chapter thirty five
Chapter thirty six of the Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Beerce.
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