More from the Times….
It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him a trace of gluttony, potential or actual. I cannot believe that there exists a single coherent human being who will not confess, at least to himself, that once or twice he has stuffed himself to the bursting point……
unlike pride, envy, wrath sins we can wholeheartedly condemn, sins that are hard to love there’s something about the serious glutton (or some serious gluttons) that inspires a respect for the life force the appetite asserting itself in all that prodigious feasting. It’s not unlike our secret feelings about Don Juans and Casanovas; even as we understand the compulsive quality of their behaviour and the destructive effects it has on their hapless lovers, we can’t help feeling a grudging regard for so much sheer sexual energy.
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