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Updated: July 4, 2025
Put a sound limb on crutches and you paralyze it; wear smoked glasses and your eyes become intolerant of light, or wear glasses that make the muscle of accommodation superfluous and it atrophies; take pepsin and hydrochloric acid and the stomach will become incapable of producing them; cease to chew and your teeth decay; let the newspaper prepare your mental food as the cook cuts up your physical food, and you will become incapable of thought that is, of mental mastication and digestion.
Just as the digestive glands in the neighborhood of the mouth become more active when we are conscious that desirable food is at hand, so do the glands in the stomach. Mastication also stimulates the flow of the gastric juice, and this flow is greater if we enjoy what we eat.
"Wodyer want to sit on my bag for then?" said Albert disagreeably. They argued the point. Argument in no wise interfered with Albert's power of mastication. The odour of aniseed became more and more painful. Ukridge had lighted a cigar, and I understood why Mrs. Ukridge preferred to travel in another compartment, for "In his hand he bore the brand Which none but he might smoke."
A sort of an illustration, this, of the fitness of things!" Apparently the peculiar unfitness of simultaneous mastication and speech struck him, for he paused a few moments, then continued, "Yes, fitness. Supplies for the table absolutely needed. Healthy exercise a consequence. Result, felicity!"
We all seated ourselves round the viands, and nothing was heard for a time but the sound of vigorous mastication, or the gurgling of the barrel of wine as it revolved briskly about the circle. My long fasting and the mountain air and exercise had given me a keen appetite, and never did repast appear to me more excellent or picturesque.
By early dawn Guapo was awake, but he did not immediately awake the others. It was still too dark to follow the mountain road. His first care was to have his coca breakfast, and to this he applied himself at once. Day was fairly broke when he had ended the process of mastication, and he bethought him of descending from the rock to arouse the sleepers.
If it is not done to her liking, she allows the process to continue; otherwise the banked up earth is removed, and the contents of the pit withdrawn and placed upon adjacent rocks to dry. It now looks like large cakes of brownish fibres, thoroughly saturated in molasses. In taste it is sweet and fairly palatable, though the fibres render it a food that requires a large amount of mastication.
Their amusements were dancing, music, games of strength and games of chance; and, above all, to people who had lately suffered the extremities of famine, abundant eating and drinking long, serious, ecstatic enjoyment of the powers of mastication and the faculties of taste. Among the assembly were some individuals whose dress and manner raised them, outwardly at least, above the general mass.
A depraved appetite is a frequent attendant on rabies in the dog. He refuses his usual food; he frequently turns from it with an evident expression of disgust; at other times, he seizes it with greater or less avidity, and then drops it, sometimes from disgust, at other times because he is unable to complete the mastication of it.
The effort of devising contradiction to the chief supporters of his own rebellion was for the moment too much for him. He resumed mastication. "You'll go where I want you to go; and don't you think you can tell me where that is." In the silence that ensued the only sound was that of old Gaunt supping at his crusty-broth.
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