At the same time, he was cultivating the darker artist within, devouring the urban underworld stories of Hubert Selby Jr. and cementing a lifelong friendship with Syracuse instructor Delmore Schwartz, a talented poet who struggled with mental illness for decades.
It took its name from a 1967 installation by Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica (shown at London's Whitechapel Gallery in 1969, and now at the Barbican) of shacks amid tropical plants and parrots, with a dark labyrinth leading to a "devouring" TV.
Premium White Chicken pho (pho gat hit trang) may have benefited from the additional taste of dark meat, but the person devouring it felt otherwise.
On a practical level, sleep deprivation makes morning rush-hour traffic an amped-up hell, as you imagine your boss reprimanding you for being late while devouring your third dark roast.
They add various souring bacteria and Brettanomyces yeast, which bathe inside the warm, dark womb of the oak barrels, devouring sugars with a rampant aggressiveness.
Once upon a time, he writes, humanity viewed the ocean as "a cursed, dark world where terrifying monsters lurked, devouring anything in sight".
Within the dark, wet wood, the microscopic critters get to work devouring sugars and carbohydrates.
Instead of serving an apprenticeship under an established director or at a commercial or national film studio, they spent their early years in the dark, sitting before Paris movie screens and at the Cinémathèque française, devouring uncounted hours of film.
The group's fans know that the early upbeat success gave way to dark days that almost devoured the band's members, particularly its guiding force, Brian Wilson.
My mind is a dark pool where the little annoyances that we all experience will swim around like sharks, devouring any suggestion of levity until they grow too big and overwhelm me.
