Tuesday, June 18, 2024

shots fired

I've written, in recent weeks, about my intestinal misadventures.

Here's Michael Gilleland, quoting the ancients. Jerome, evoking Tertullian:

But even if our food be the commonest, we must avoid repletion. For nothing is so destructive to the mind as a full belly, seething and turning itself hither and thither and transforming its gases into belches and farts.



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