A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens - and I quote from page 184 of the Barnes and Noble Classics edition:
"All the women knitted. They knitted worthless things, but, the mechanical work was a mechanical substitute for eating and drinking; the hands moved for the jaws and the digestive apparatus ; if the bony fingers had been still, the stomachs would have been more famine-pinched."
Welcome to Weight Watchers Plus Knitters Anonymous.
