Speaking of food, novelists and philosophers occasionally do just that.



The Gourmet's Love-Song
by P. G. Wodehouse


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"...My Form, my friends observe with pain

Is growing daily thinner.

Love only occupies the brain

That once could think of dinner..."

From a poem by P. G. Wodehouse from The New Oxford Book of Light Verse selected by Kingsley Amis (1978).


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