https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n20/tom-crewe/praeludium-of-a-grunt Created Fri, 06/10/2023 - 00:00 Updated Fri, 06/10/2023 - 00:00 Charles Lamb could not ‘digest’ death, but he gorged on life. Food, for Lamb, was a medium of thought, a master metaphor. The solitude of childhood was the ‘feeder of love, and silence, and admiration’.