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[kbk]

Why am I awake at this hour? Apart from the part where I've been sleeping fourteen hours at a time most of this week, so four hours tonight is not that surprising. Anyway. I thought I might start reading my latest book, but during the Introduction I realised I was hungry, and then it just felt weird, because the book is Cannibalism and Human Sacrifice by Garry Hogg, which is apparently a classic work on the subject, first published in 1958. It has made me raise my eyebrows sceptically a few times already, though.

A quote: "it has been widely found that when the taste for human flesh is once indulged, such taste quickly develops into a fierce and eventually unappeasable lust for flesh which no mere animal flesh can ever satisfy".

I was thinking about doing things today but if I can sleep later maybe I will do that instead. I am lazy, after all. Ho-hum.

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[edithmatilda.livejournal.com]

Any book that old brings unalloyed joy, I think.

[kbk]

Older books are even better.

I figured out why that quote bothered me - it sounds like a B-movie. The monster has an unappeasable lust for human flesh!!!

[edithmatilda.livejournal.com]

Don't we all? That is horribly so, yes.

I like books by sixties lefties who have not watered down their beliefs with tedious reality yet. They make me feel warm and fuzzy.

[kbk]

I quite like Victorian books, especially skience ones which are just entirely wrong. There's something about the style of the sentences, the elaborate pomposity of it all.

[edithmatilda.livejournal.com]

Goodness me yes. I like the beautiful rambling of the seventeenth century but it's not nearly as funny.