Report, if you have a problem with this page“ No one was irritable; we have never known anyone to remain unhappy while digesting a good meal. We enjoy lingering in a becalmed state, a kind of midpoint between the reverie of a thinker and the contentment of a cud-chewing animal, a state that should be termed the physical melancholy of gastronomy. ”
Honoré de Balzac
From : The Human Comedy: Selected Stories
