Why does 〜しそうだ seem to be used in place of 〜すること here?


I’m reading Tokyo Ghoul right now and I’ve come across this line:

> グールが生まれながらにして得ることのない人の快楽…その代わりに、これが与えられたんだ。食欲に呑まれ **そうだ。**

My intuition, which the English translation confirms, is that 「食欲に呑まれそうだ」is
the antecedent of 「これ」. However, I don’t see how “seems like being consumed by
hunger” can be what is given to ghouls in the stead of human happiness. Had
the sentence been written in the form of「食欲に呑まれること」I would have no confusion
whatsoever, but I simply don’t see how it makes sense to use the resemblance-
marking そう here.




I haven't read Tokyo Ghoul, so I might be missing some context, but the way I
read this sentence, これ refers to the pleasure of satisfying hunger, in
exchange of some other human pleasures.

And because the pleasure of satisfying hunger is so incredible, the desire to
eat (食欲) is almost overwhelming the speaker, who I assume is a ghoul, and
that's what そう (about to) is referring to.




I haven't read Tokyo Ghoul, so I might be missing some context, but the way I
read this sentence, これ refers to the pleasure of satisfying hunger, in
exchange of some other human pleasures.

And because the pleasure of satisfying hunger is so incredible, the desire to
eat (食欲) is almost overwhelming the speaker, who I assume is a ghoul, and
that's what そう (about to) is referring to.

