Maxim

by John Vignaux Smyth

"More fundamental than sex" - a maxim on eating by John Vignaux Smyth

 


John Vignaux Smyth is the author of A Question of Eros: Irony in Sterne, Kierkegaard, and Barthes and The Habit of Lying: Sacrificial Studies in Literature, Philosophy, and Fashion Theory. The above is one of a continuing series of maxims Propeller asked him to contribute to the Summer 2012 "Consumption" issue. Smyth lives in Scotland.