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is like an undressed wound when absent of drinking.

Eating without drinking is like an undressed wound. Samuel Joseph Agnon

is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is a ritual activity with food categories constituting a social boundary system whereby the meal is a microcosm of wider social structures.

Mary Douglas, another influential anthropologist, has also approached the process of 'deciphering a meal' with the premise that food categories encode, and therefore structure, social events. For Douglas, in western as well as non-western cultures, the consumption of food is a ritual activity. She argues that food categories constitute a social boundary system... the predictable structure of each meal creates order out of potential disorder. The meal is thus a microcosm of wider social structures and boundary definitions: 'the ordered system which is a meal represents all the ordered systems associated with it' (Douglas, 1975: 273).

is a way of thinking. By eating each other alive, animals grasp and share (in) some truth of sensuous beings, some kind of wisdom of the mysteries of despair, of negation, of non-intellectual incorporation which man extricates himself from.

By eating each other and themselves alive, animals grasp and share (in) some truth of sensuous beings. For Hegel, eating is a way of thinking. 18 'All of nature, like the animals, celebrates these open Mysteries' (Hegel), this 'link of mutual ferocity' (Lispector) . But man likes to part from the feast. While animals 'prove themselves to be the most deeply initiated in [the] wisdom' of the mysteries of despair, man energies from the revel of mutually consuming reflection by way of a peculiar kind of stupidity ( 109). He fixes his gaze, wherever he looks, on the dull but stable opacity of self-identity.

 would be terribly tiresome if God had not made it a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

is, along with sexuality, opposed as the two basic instincts that give rise to the whole variegation of the phenomena of life. Eating is a destruction of the object with the final aim of incorporating it, and the sexual act is an act of aggression with the purpose of the most intimate union.

In biological functions the two basic instincts operate against each other or combine with each other. Thus, the act of eating is a destruction of the object with the final aim of incorporating it, and the sexual act is an act of aggression with the purpose of the most intimate union. This concurrent and mutually opposing action of the two basic instincts gives rise to the whole variegation of the phenomena of life' (SE XXIII, 149).

Eating is an agricultural act.' Wendell Berry, What Are People for Essays By Wendell B

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