Food for Thought

[stoutfellow]

Now this is, I think, an interesting passage, from Butcher's Princeps' Fury:

Oh, certainly, Gaius Sextus was likely one of the more erudite and learned Citizens in the Realm, but all the same, Isana had never understood men who made it a point to put trophies of their hunts on the walls, either. Gaius's study, its walls lined with the carcasses of books he had torn open and devoured, reminded her of nothing so much as old Aldo's hunting lodge, back in the Calderon Valley, and she thought it only marginally less boastful.