tycho wrote:At least we know that there's an instance in which a man ate himself, and offered himself to be eaten, and was in fact eaten.
Maybe looking at this case would give us light.
That will distract us from the case at hand.
We are looking at this case of having this idea that 'you will know you have made it if you eat human flesh, and drink human blood with sangfroid'.
You have human flesh and human blood but you have not eaten and drunk. Why?