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Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure? — David Foster Wallace

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Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure?

David Foster Wallace
Gourmet · 2004
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Animal crueltyMan and animalsFood
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EssayMagazine
Time
2004
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David Foster Wallace
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Wallace, David Foster. "Consider the Lobster." Consider the Lobster and Other Essays. Back Bay Books, 2007.
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Wallace, David Foster. "Consider the Lobster." Gourmet, Aug. 2004.

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