[a fool in paradise]

“The closet starves a man, and when he gets a chance he gorges till it sickens him,” he writes in his book, titled “The Confession.”

Did Jim ever take in so much he had to have his stomach pumped?

[ETL]

Yet he phrases the remark in such a way as to make him sound like some tough guy cowboy actor.

ie, “The trail starves a man, and when he gets a chance he gorges till it sickens him,”