Quote by Samuel Legg

Quote by Samuel Legg

"I was walking along … [with my] buddy … it was deep into the semistarvation, and we were tired … we would look for driveways when we got to a cross street … so we wouldn’t have to walk up one step to get from the road to the sidewalk … And so we would walk in the gutter for awhile, looking for a driveway. We were tired and weak. And so we were standing at a corner waiting for a light or something, and a kid came along on a bicycle, and he was really moving, pumping away … And I looked at him and said, “Wow, look at that boy. He’s really whizzing.” And then I said to myself, “I know where he’s going. He’s going home for supper. And I’m not.” And then for a very brief, I hope it was brief, moment … I suddenly hated the boy … I hate at this point to tell you this, because it doesn’t speak very well for me. But I remember … with … horror that I could feel such a thing. So utterly irrational, but there it was. And you ask an experience that I remember; I sure remember that. That was rough."

from the article "They Starved So That Others Be Better Fed: Remembering Ancel Keys and the Minnesota Experiment"

Samuel Legg

June 1, 2001

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https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/135.6.1347