“Will had made a faux pas. But how could you blame him? Until Eleanor had come under the spell of the good Doctor, the whole lot of raw-fooders, oat-bran nuts, antivivisectionists, Indian fakirs, nudists and the like had seemed indistinguishable to him, fish out of the same barrel.“ C.W. Post slogans instead of Kellogg slogans, blurted right in front of the Doctor. Come for what seems like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest vibes, but satirical.
“Each of these separate species [of 160 types of digestive bacteria] forms its own peculiar products and byproducts, many of which are highly toxic...the aerobes are generally beneficial---vital to us, in fact, and they produce harmless acids for the most part---but the anaerobes, those bacteria we find in flesh foods, are pathologic and putrefactive. They are pernicious, Mr. Lightbody, and they are your [neurasthenic] scourge.“ Gen Z apropos!
“The sad fact of human existence is that we must engage in these dangerous practices---dangerous for wife and husband alike, what with the excitation of the nervous system, the loss of life-giving fluids, the shock to the constitutions of both partners---we must engage in them, I say, to replenish the species. It's our lot in life.“
I‘m heading out on an 10 hour road trip by myself tomorrow morning. What are your Audible suggestions?
#shelfiesunday #backtoreading I love my little dog band, they keep the books company.
The Road to Wellville | 
