Fame in Monster Rancher 2 is how popular your monster is. 1 is the lowest fame and 100 being the highest. You can get more fame by winning battles or eating Star Prunes. But your fame will go down if you enter a battle that is below your regular rank. And also fame may help you get certain monsters, like Dragon or Wracky. And people like Dr.Talico, visit you if your fame is high enough.

Food is the nourishment that sustains life. By stating that fame is a food, the poet suggests that some people use it for nourishment. The real meaning of this metaphor lies in the use of the adjectives 'fickle" to describe the food, fame, and in the use of "shifting" to describe the plate used for serving fame. The poet also extends the metaphor and adds another layer of meaning when she references that crows, unlike man, actually inspect the food of fame, and see it for what it is, and flap past it to fame's opposite, the very basic farmer's corn, while men eat fame and die, suggesting that Nature is wiser than man. Obviously, Emily Dickinson is speaking of spiritual, not physical, death.

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I don't think it's a question, but a statement. Apparently said by Socrates, my interpretation of it is that 'fame is a by-product of having done something great!' ie by having won a war or made a significant scientifc breakthrough for example, you might become famous. The substance would be in your 'heroic deed', and fame would be your 'perfume', an 'added extra' (for want of a better term), which seems to be in contrast to many contemporary 'famous' people, as something as trivial and irrelevant as appearing on tv might earn you fame.

September 18, 2003. (for the 1980 original version)