Television is an insatiable beast that requires sustenance 24 hours a day.
On the ground floor is a bookworm's haven, Café de Bak, but right now I'm in need of more sustenance and an hour alone with Dostoevsky isn't going to do it.
This was to be his only pause and his only sustenance during 10 1/2 hours of precision hand work, the first nine of which were performed standing.
You need sustenance for the hours ahead, to drink in the delights of Angkor Wat, a three-tiered pyramid crowned by five towers, like beehives, that rise 65 metres above the ground.
And if you are partying during Mardi Gras, you will most likely be in need of some sustenance at unusual hours.
Grocery stores puzzlingly do not exist in the city, leaving residents to forage for sustenance in 24-hour corner stores, or tienditas.
Some blameless little service – say Burma's hour of sustenance a day – is said to be in danger after 70 glorious years of truth-telling.
Need sustenance in the small hours?
Visitors to a screening of Christian Marclay's The Clock at Los Angeles County Museum of Art last weekend were offered sustenance at a "24-hour pop-up doughnut show" across the street.
The food my mother took me to buy that day was to serve a double purpose: sustenance on the ten-hour bus ride, and a farewell luxury before being committed for two months to a place where, as I was soon to learn, possession of any desirable foodstuff resulted in harsh disciplinary action.
One might question that assessment, considering McCann has lemon water for breakfast, a smoothie for lunch, tablespoons of almond butter for sustenance and trains for several hours in between.
