cannibalism
Eat me. Eat me up like cream pudding. Take me in. Take me. Take.
-Anne Sexton, “Anna Who Was Mad”
A Dictionary of Diet; Being a Practical Treatise on All Pabulary and Nutritive Substances, Solid and Fluid, With Their Compounds Used As Food
by J. S. Forsyth, 1833
But when the food does not come from a flock in the sky, when you don’t feel the warm feathers cool in your hand and know that a life has been given for yours, when there is no gratitude in return—that food may not satisfy. It may leave the spirit hungry while the belly is full.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
‘We now have clear proof of cannibalism in this site.’ Signs of butchery were everywhere – not just on the odd bone. Almost two thirds of bones from post-cranial parts of the skeleton (any bone other than the skull and mandible) bore cut-marks. And in many places, the cuts were grouped, in parallel, at key sites of muscle and ligament attachment.
... See moreAlice Roberts • Ancestors
A Dictionary of Diet; Being a Practical Treatise on All Pabulary and Nutritive Substances, Solid and Fluid, With Their Compounds Used As Food
by J. S. Forsyth, 1833
A man dumps the body of a girl in a ditch. The body rots and melts into slime. Flowers pop up where the body lies. Seeds fly out of the flowers. A bee sucks the flowers and makes honey. The family of the girl buys the honey from the store. The family eats the girl.
- The Tracey Fragments (film)
Sometimes the eggs hatch alive even within the quiescent body of the pupa. The same incredible thing occasionally occurs within the fly genus Miastor, again to both larvae and pupae. “These eggs hatch within their bodies and the ravenous larvae which emerge immediately begin devouring their parents.” In this case, I know what it’s all about, and I
... See moreAnnie Dillard • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
I can tell you're admiring my febrility. I know it's appealing, I practice at it; every woman loves an invalid. But be careful. You might do something destructive: hunger is more basic than love. Florence Nightingale was a cannibal you know.
- Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman