“One must have lived on such diet to discover what ghastly trouble the necessity of swallowing one's food become.”

—  Joseph Conrad , book An Outpost of Progress

Tales of Unrest http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1202/1202-h/1202-h.htm. An Outpost of Progress (1902)

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