Gluttony : The Seven Deadly Sins: The Seven Deadly Sins by Francine Prose

Author:Francine Prose
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Popular Culture, Social Science
ISBN: 9780199760688
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003-09-10T16:00:00+00:00

Of course, once-pious Christians knew what awaited them as a consequence of overeating, they realized how important it was to watch their diets, how carefully they had to control their appetites. As these dire warnings and forecasts from the world of the dead exerted their pessimistic influence on the world of the living, gluttony began to seem more serious and more deadly. The promise of a good meal would surely have paled, at least slightly, when those about to eat it considered the punishment options they might expect: terrible aching hunger within sight of the unreachable red wine and golden roast chicken, stuffing one's belly with rats and slimy worms, or lying naked in the wet, cold rain with no way to get inside, and the knowledge that this suffering would last forever and ever and ever. What a risk we are taking as we reach for that glazed doughnut! No wonder that thoughtful and even altruistic humans have found it increasingly important to warn their peers about the passing, transient, gluttonous pleasure that leads to eternal penance and pain.

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