My Food is Anticipation. My Drug is Hope

Written on 01/05/2026
Poetic Outlaws

By: Francois Jacob
François Jacob – Biographical - NobelPrize.org

“What man seeks, to the point of anguish, in his gods, in his art, in his science, is meaning. He cannot bear the void. He pours meaning on events like salt on his food.”

Francois Jacob

My obsession: a life that shrivels up, slowly rots, goes soft as a pulp. This worry about decline grabs me by the throat as I awake.

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