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Updated: August 17, 2024
Perhaps I feel more strongly on this subject because I happen to have seen with my own eyes the reductio ad absurdum to absurdity how lamentable and dreadful! of this same human craving for literal preservation of that which should not, cannot, be preserved.
But a woman weaker, more helpless, credulous, ignorant, and craving for light must not in her agony go to a man for succor and sympathy." "Why should she not?" burst out Barker passionately, releasing her in his attempt to gaze into her face. "What man dare refuse her?" "Not THAT," she said slowly, but with still averted eyes, "but because the world would say she LOVED him."
But then he had her husband Jacob to chat with, and the spirit bottle to finish, and the wild craving for excitement plucked his thoughts back to his London revels. Now poor Jacob was dead, and it was not brandy that the sick man drank from the widow's cruse; and London lay afar amidst its fogs, like a world resolved back into nebula.
So he put the cigarette away, and immediately was overwhelmed with a craving for it. He fought it for five minutes that felt like five hours, and felt his desire grow tenfold with each minute.
There are all kinds of phenomena in life which have nothing whatsoever to do with reason. You have convinced my reason that I'm an egotistical dreamer. But nothing you can do or say will ever remove the craving for you that I have here " and he thumped his big chest "like hunger." When he had gone Zora thought over the scene with more disturbance of mind than she appreciated.
And with a tragic wave of his arm the Frenchman flings his dinner napkin on the table majestically, and walks out of the room with dignity. Three hours later the table is laid again, and the servants bring in the dinner. Kamyshev sits alone at the table. After the preliminary glass he feels a craving to babble. He wants to chatter, but he has no listener.
Vandover soon became filled with an overwhelming curiosity, the eager evil curiosity of the schoolboy, the perverse craving for the knowledge of vice. He listened with all his ears to everything that was said and went about through the great city with eyes open only to its foulness.
Or, times when they had done unusually well with their sandbank, they would talk optimistically about washing enough gold out of that claim to develop the other, and keep the title all in their own hands. Then, one night Bud dreamed again of Marie, and awoke with an insistent craving for the oblivion of drunkenness.
Amongst the Burmans the craving is, I should say, as strong as amongst other people; and no mere legal prohibition would have had much effect in a country like this, full of jungle, where palms grow in profusion, and where little stills might be set up anywhere to distil their juice.
Such patients had suffered sometimes from gastralgy, had had a great craving for food, especially vegetables, but were during that time entirely free from fever. Remarkably sudden disaster followed the immoderate use of alcohol.
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