For just a moment, people on their way to the Delacorte were reminded of youth's ability to nourish itself with whatever it is given.
At its cellular core, a tumor might nourish itself with its own supply of oxygen; it might organize its environment to fuel its growth; it might regenerate itself from a dedicated population of stem cells.
Of course, the obsession with money and celebrity nourishes itself, but in the earlier age of art-house cinema, the only ones who obsessed about such things were those who wielded their levers.
In his book, he arrived at a typically New Left solution: the institution must not be reformed, for "reform" is the very myth by which the Leviathan nourishes itself.
Whether in Thomas's father's way of referring to the Resurrection as "liftoff" or in descriptions of a stuffy classicist neighbor (he "always acted like an inspector from a rarer country") or of his female parishioners ("only their thick gray strong metallic hair... seemed to be in its prime, greedily nourishing itself at the expense of the soul"), Wood nails his targets brilliantly.
That class, they write, is "becoming increasingly indifferent to the common good and the notion of sound administration in order to nourish itself".
But to nourish itself and its audience, an art form has to keep evolving toward something greater -- not just a multimillion-dollar budget and a tie-in deal with a burger chain.
After all, what living thing on earth doesn't also nourish itself, reproduce and try its darndest to survive and succeed in an environment that changes faster than we possibly can?
While the earth is forced to nourish itself of dioxins, heavy metals and other toxic substances, people ingest, breath and absorb these poisons into their bodies through the food they eat, the air they breath, the water they drink.
It's a necessity for your body to nourish itself overnight and keep vitalized for the day ahead.
From the experience of trees, you can learn to nourish your body as the tree knows instinctively how to nourish itself – selectively, slowly in small amounts, and aligned with the environment and seasons around you.
