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How to Be Cheerful Though Starving

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By MFK Fisher

Published 1944

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Obsession by economic issues is as local and transitory as it is repulsive and disturbing.

The Acquisitive Society, RICHARD HENRY TAWNEY

When you are really hungry, a meal eaten by yourself is not so much an event as the automatic carrying out of a physical function: you must do it to live. [I now disagree completely with this, and could and probably will write a whole book proving my present point, that solitary dining, no matter what the degree of hunger, can be good.] But when you share it with another human or two, or even a respected animal, it becomes dignified. Suddenly it takes on part of the ancient religious solemnity of the Breaking of Bread, the Sharing of Salt. No matter what your hunger nor how fiercely your fingers itch for the warmness of the food, the fact that you are not alone makes flavors clearer and a certain philosophic slowness possible.

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