The Quiet Corner
October 7, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL 543 THE QUIET CORNER / counsel thee, shut not thy heart nor thy library.—C. Lamb. "Really, Criticus, this is too much!" exclaimed Dr. Angelicus, sorting a...
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...I should answer at present, under the protest I make at this unveiling of my breakfast sanctum, that I am, in politics as well as gustatory pursuits, a moderate breakfaster...
...For bulletins address: Secretary, Box 75, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana the deliberate turn of the rack in this inquisition—fruit, of course, but rarely berries, bananas or such Sunday-night preserves as bespeak vulgar appetites—cereals on cold mornings, with a sort of reverential mother-feeling recalling nursery days, pushers and the railed-in trays of childhood's untrammeled day-breaks—eggs, I prefer them au beurre, although an inveterate longing for hard-boiled duck eggs sometimes comes over me when the snow lies heavy on the landscape— potatoes, I confess to a certain hankering after them—meat, I confess to a mortal weakness for crisped porkchops and oldfashioned sausages black and dry on the plate—hot cakes, yes, when there is plenty of butter, fresh butter with some salt newly pressed through it—milk, why of course, is it not nature's food...
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...No, Doctor, but there seems at times a change in your literary opinions before and after luncheon—those poems, for instance, The Obsolete Sonnets, which you disliked so much at eleven o'clock on Monday morning and declared to be masterpieces when you reentered the office at three in the afternoon...
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...Hereticus took up the letter again—"Doctor, they wish to know whether you take for your breakfast, fruit, cereal, eggs, potatoes, meat, hot cakes, milk, rolls, toast or bread, and they ask are you governed primarily by their appeal to your taste or do you seek from them merely a nourishment or a contribution to your health...
...The questionnaire," interrupted Primus Criticus, "is concerned primarily with your state of mind as a resultant of this breakfast dietary"— "I think you have rarely found me an unsmiling character before the luncheon hour, have you, Criticus...
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