Wherever and whenever they turn or look--buns and chocolates!
- Date of account
- Published 1911
- Source
- Byways of Ghost-Land
- Reference
- Byways of Ghost-Land · selected passage 9
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
wherever and whenever they turn or look--buns and chocolates!
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlyIt is buns and chocolates! wherever and whenever they turn or look--buns and chocolates! This greed soon develops, as the occult brain intended it should; enforced physical labour, or athletics, or even sedentary work may dwarf its growth for a time, but at middle and old age it comes on again, and the buns and chocolates are become so many coursed luncheons and dinners. Their world is one of menus, nothing but menus; their only mental exertion the study of menus, and I have no doubt that "tuck" shops and restaurants are besieged by the ever-hungry spirit of the earth-bound glutton. Though the drink-germ is usually developed later (and its later growth is invariably accelerated with seas of alcohol), it not infrequently feeds its initial growth with copious streams of ginger beer and lemon kali.
Historical context
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Modern context
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