Stranded on the sofa like a whale fed up with plankton, he knew he couldn’t eat any more. Yet he felt the things he had eaten were not enough to fill him – a renowned publisher, the limelight of the literary world, casual sex with beautiful women, luxurious vista over Central Park –: he needed more, and he couldn’t eat more.
And then, his hands started grabbing things against his will. He reached for the remote control and swallowed it. Gulp, it went its way. And then the pillow. And the carpet. And another copy of his novel left on the floor. He stretched and seized hold of the table itself: in slow, gargantuan movements he brought it closer, engulfed it and started absorbing it. The thing he had become was now horribly bloating: past the edge of satiety, it was now hunger feeding itself, exponentially, without remorse. A machine for digesting the world.
Picture from Wikimedia. Thanks to @mariannewest (and I am still one day late…)
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Good writing as always...I read it like a metaphor for our age of consumerism and "allophagia"
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Is that like alliophagia, where you can't stop yourself from eating too much garlic?
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Well, that will be a serious social impediment!
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I enjoyed the climax and the automatism of this senseless self-feeding dishumanised thing.. I also see a metaphorical meaning (which is also what I meant when I was chatting with Marianne, hence the prompt) and I love the association with one of my most loved painters. Very well done!
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Absurd enough to be believable. Great choice of artwork, too.
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Oooooooooooooooo Creepy and SO SO great!!
Bravo!!
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Oh no!! Make it stop!! don't want to be ingested!!! running away :)
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Interesting
I will follow you to see your future posts!
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