الجوع إذا طال جنونٌ مؤقت! فالدماغ يعمل بلا غذائه الضروري، فتملأ الذهن أفكارٌ في غاية الغرابة. ولم أكن أعرف حتى الآن معنى الجوع الحقيقي. وها أنا ذا أوشك أن أفهمه.

“Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.”Jules Verne — Jules Verne Selected Works: 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Five Weeks in a Balloon, The Mysterious Island (2013)