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A meal was no more than a fragile defense against the inevitability of the next meal. Food itself could never answer the question of food

A meal was no more than a fragile defense against the inevitability of the next meal. Food itself could never answer the question of food
it only delayed the moment when the question would have to be asked in earnest.

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it only delayed the moment when the question would have to be asked in earnest.
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