Topical Guide 490
Mark Dorset
The Soul
Hunger
Reservations Recommended, Chapter 4
“Anyway, according to these kids, one of his messages says, ‘Culture guerrillas eat at Ike’s,’ and they figured that he was giving himself away. Deliberately. That this was like a signature. Like a painter signing a painting.”
“No, I don’t think so,” says Matthew. “In fact, that doesn’t even sound like one of his. Did they say there was a second part? Is there a comment?”
“Yeah. There is. ‘They stuff themselves, but their souls are hungry.’”
“No, that’s not him. It’s too pat. It doesn’t have that twisted quality. These MIT guys probably wrote it themselves. You know, I wouldn’t be surprised if they did! I wouldn’t be surprised at all. I’ll bet he’s spawned imitators, and now he’s even inspired parodies.”
Ecclesiastes 6 (King James Version):
7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Epicurus, “Epicurus’s Exhortation”:
The ungrateful greed of the soul makes the creature everlastingly desire varieties of dainty food.
(Used by Kraft as one of the epigraphs to Reservations Recommended.)
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