ah, gluttony

[jg26]

I'm reading Dan Savage's "Skipping Towards Gomorrah", which I'm pretty sure most of my LJ friends have read. I just finished the gluttony chapter and saw a quote I had to share.

Writing about gluttony, Saint Gregory warns us of the Five Fingers of the Devils's Hand: eating at inappropriate hours, "overdelicacy" in a person's choice of meat and

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[jg26]

No worries: I deleted the anonymous comment. Nope, bluechromis. Flexy was saying, at your party, that you had read it recently. Is that the case?

[jg26]

can see sin-obsessed types REALLY not liking it

Well, yes. The whole point of the book is a retort to the 'virtucrats' who write books telling us how America is on a moral slide & how we *should* live our lives.

Did you post about it?

[flexagon]

The greed chapter was a little weird for me too. I don't deny that I'm strongly drawn to material things, but I'm *not* drawn to gambling in excess. That one and the anger chapter (guns) didn't quite seem to make sense to me. I still enjoyed Dan's writing but it didn't seem in either case like he really picked the action that matches the sin.

Anyway, glad you're enjoying it! Apfel is right, I've lent it out more than once -- in fact when I saw you post I reflexively looked around to see if my copy was on my bookshelf. :)

[flexagon]

P.S. I did a search but I don't think I posted about it, which makes sense since I was reading it right around Xmas '02 (I remember because I'd just gotten engaged) and that was pre-LiveJournal.