Two anecdotes:
Condemned to death by Parisian revolutionaries, Louis xvi consumed six cutlets, a big portion of eggs, and three glasses of wine.
Louis xvi loved food so much that on his wedding night when he was sixteen years old, he ate himself “breathless.” When his grandfather, Louis xv, recommended that he might be filling his stomach too much young Louis replied “Why not? I sleep so much better that way.”
Louis xvi is not alone. Many people consume great quantities of [fill in the needed word here: food, drugs, sex, alcohol] while ignoring the many good things (and bad… but isn’t that what it means to be alive?) that happen to us. It is like taking a pain killer that dulls all sensation.
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