We are Fed as we Feed

Celebrated as one of the greatest writers of all time, French writer Marcel Proust (1871–1922) filled out a personal questionnaire at the start of his career for a magazine like the one we know today as Vanity Fair. His handwritten response sold at auction in 2003 for almost a quarter of a million dollars. 

One of the questions asked of him was this: “What profession would you have chosen had lack of paper prevented you from becoming a writer?” Proust replied, “I would, I think, have chosen to be a baker: it is honorable…