[somehow, that had not occurred to him. He had thought it had to be one or the other. One more case of an absolute he had to remove from his way of thinking ... sometimes he thought they would never end. But the mention of food stirs him out of it, though not in the way Peter might have expected]

Oh! Food. ... That, uh. That reminds me... I had a talk with a few people, recently, and ... somethings been pointed out t' me I wanted to hash out with you.