W.H.Auden
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- NeighbourlyDining 30 12“Eating unites us all—rich, poor, stupid, clever, male, female, black or white. If you want to know someone, the first thing you do is to ask him to dinner. Eating is purely selfish, so a shared feast becomes a symbol of generosity and love. The symbol of Agape is not the act of sex but the act of nutrition. Just because eating is the one primal act common to all living organisms irrespective of species, race, age, sex, or consciousness, the one act in which, since we demand all and give nothing, we are necessarily completely alone, therefore only this act can testify to the utter dependence of all creatures on each other, to the fact that everyone is our neighbor."
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- NeighbourlyDining 30 12“Eating unites us all—rich, poor, stupid, clever, male, female, black or white. If you want to know someone, the first thing you do is to ask him to dinner. Eating is purely selfish, so a shared feast becomes a symbol of generosity and love. The symbol of Agape is not the act of sex but the act of nutrition. Just because eating is the one primal act common to all living organisms irrespective of species, race, age, sex, or consciousness, the one act in which, since we demand all and give nothing, we are necessarily completely alone, therefore only this act can testify to the utter dependence of all creatures on each other, to the fact that everyone is our neighbor."