'In the 1959 revised edition of his novel which first came out in 1945, he admits that as he was writing at a bleak period of privation and soya beans “the book is infused with a kind of gluttony for food and wine”.'
That is a scarcity trap speaking, as per my Why Aren't I Writing? piece from a few weeks ago. Whenever we don't have enough of something, it becomes all we can think about. When a group of men went on an extremely low calorie diet in 1944 to help scientists understand the impact of starvation, they became obsessed with food (https://www.npr.org/transcripts/520587241):
"they planned to open restaurants, to become restaurateurs. They memorized recipes. They compared food prices of different newspapers. That's what they were doing. The whole time, they sat around looking at food-related issues."
I wonder where else in literature scarcity traps become apparent?
I'm fascinated by this bit:
'In the 1959 revised edition of his novel which first came out in 1945, he admits that as he was writing at a bleak period of privation and soya beans “the book is infused with a kind of gluttony for food and wine”.'
That is a scarcity trap speaking, as per my Why Aren't I Writing? piece from a few weeks ago. Whenever we don't have enough of something, it becomes all we can think about. When a group of men went on an extremely low calorie diet in 1944 to help scientists understand the impact of starvation, they became obsessed with food (https://www.npr.org/transcripts/520587241):
"they planned to open restaurants, to become restaurateurs. They memorized recipes. They compared food prices of different newspapers. That's what they were doing. The whole time, they sat around looking at food-related issues."
I wonder where else in literature scarcity traps become apparent?