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Gluttony See also Greed. Belch, Sir Toby gluttonous and lascivious fop. [Br. Lit.: Twelfth Night] one of the best known “feeders” of eighteenth-century England. [Br. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 377] Florentine damned to the third circle of Hell for gluttony. [Ital. Lit.: Dante Inferno] loves to devour oysters. [Medieval Animal Symbolism: White, 210–211]
relieves tensions by making and eating gargantuan sandwiches. [Comics: “Blondie” in Horn, 118] character who loves food more than anything else. [Comics: “The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers” in Horn, 239–240] enormous eater who ate salad lettuces as big as walnut trees. [Fr. Lit.: Brewer Handbook, 406] people worshiped food in the form of Manduce. [Fr. Lit.: Pantagruel] attribute of gourmandism personified. [Animal Symbolism: Hall, 146] Damon Runyon’s Broadway glutton. [Am. Lit. and Drama: Guys and Dolls] character renowned for his insatiable hankering for hamburgers. [Comics: “Archie” in Horn, 87] epithet of Zeus, meaning “gluttonous.” [Gk. Myth. Zimmerman, 292–293] Roman epicure chiefly remembered for his enormous consumption of food. [Rom. Hist.: Payton, 406] traditional symbol of voracity. [Plant Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 175] idol worshiped by the Gastrolaters. [Fr. Lit.: Pantagruel] son of Gargantua noted for his continual thirst. [Fr. Lit.: Jobes, II, 1234] character devoted to God, country, and belly. [Comics: “Beetle Bailey” in Horn, 106 ] huge, bearlike landowner astonishes banquet guests by devouring an entire sturgeon. [Russ. Lit.: Gogol Dead Souls] Archie’s son-in-law; has insatiable appetite. [TV: “All in the Family” in Terrace, I, 47] servant who achieved fame through his public gluttony. [Br. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 378] Popeye’s companion, a corpulent dandy with a tremendous capacity for hamburgers. [Comics: “Thimble Theater” in Horn, 657–658] lovable, bumbling devourer of honey. [Children’s Lit.: Winnie-the-Pooh] his gastronomic abilities inspired poems and songs; at one historic sitting, he consumed all the edible meat of a sheep. [Br. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 378]
“ate up cream cheese, roast beef, piecrust”; incessant eater. [Nurs. Rhyme: Baring-Gould, 158] character with insatiable appetite; always stealing picnic baskets from visitors to Jellystone Park. [Am. Comics: Misc.; TV: Terrace, II, 448–449] |
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To show you how fortuitous was development in those days let me state that had it not been for the gluttony of Lop-Ear I might have brought about the domestication of the dog. Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomised life as a voracious appetite and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony and slaughter, ruled over by chance, merciless, planless, endless. If, regardless of that counsel, you choose to make a beast of yourself now, and over-eat and over-drink yourself till you turn the good victuals into poison, who is to blame if, hereafter, while you are suffering the torments of yesterday's gluttony and drunkenness, you see more temperate men sitting down to enjoy themselves at that splendid entertainment which you are unable to taste? |
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