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EAT FAT is a "postmodern diet book," as Klein puts it (employing a rather eccentric definition of postmodern, which seems roughly to amount to "counterintuitive"): an encomium to corpulence and an excoriation of all the industries that encourage you to be skinny.

We do not associate corpulence or surplus of vitality with a long, slender neck.

He read, and read everything that came to hand.


On coming home, while his valets were still taking off his things, he picked up a book and began to read.


From reading he passed to sleeping, from sleeping to gossip in drawing rooms of the club, from gossip to carousals and women; from carousals back to gossip, reading, and wine.


Drinking became more and more a physical and also a moral necessity.


Though the doctors warned him that with his corpulence wine was dangerous for him, he drank a great deal.


He was only quite at ease when having poured several glasses of wine mechanically into his large mouth he felt a pleasant warmth in his body, an amiability toward all his fellows, and a readiness to respond superficially to every idea without probing it deeply.


Only after emptying a bottle or two did he feel dimly that the terribly tangled skein of life which previously had terrified him was not as dreadful as he had thought.


He was always conscious of some aspect of that skein, as with a buzzing in his head after dinner or supper he chatted or listened to conversation or read.


But under the influence of wine he said to himself: "It doesn't matter.


I'll get it unraveled.


I have a solution ready, but have no time now-I'll think it all out later on!" But the later on never came.


I considered all additions to its greatness rather as the tumour of disease than the shootings of vigour, and thought that its nerves grew weaker as its corpulence increased.

Eight years don't improve one,-and for my corpulence, if I am grown fat, what must I have been in my Modenese days! This, however, was not likely to be the case, as Lord B-- rode post, and the other was, by his corpulence, obliged to travel in a chaise; yet, that I might not increase his anxiety, I left Paris immediately on the receipt of his message, and met him at the appointed place, where he received me with all the agitation of joy and fear, and asked if I had ever encouraged Sir T-- A-- in his addresses.

His body, swelled by an intemperate course of life to an unwieldy corpulence, was covered with ulcers, and devoured by innumerable swarms of those insects which have given their name to a most loathsome disease; but as Galerius had offended a very zealous and powerful party among his subjects, his sufferings, instead of exciting their compassion, have been celebrated as the visible effects of divine justice.

By such kind of sudorifics he had the good luck, at last, to melt down all that superfluous health and force which stood betwixt him and glory; and to the dismay of those who had betted on the continuity of his corpulence, he came out of his flannels, on the first of May, as meagre and as miserable a looking mortal, as ever disgraced [Page 41] that noble animal which he was to bestride.

His health is undermined by epileptic fits, which, with his great corpulence, make men throw their thoughts on his brother Prince Charles.

So that the whole advantage of a contract was frustrated, and I began to be sorry that I had not made a point of being, notwithstanding the alleged weight and impediment of my corpulence, the major-commandant myself.

His person was broad and full, and tended even to corpulence; his complexion was fair, though not what painters technically style fair, because it was associated with black hair; his eyes were large and soft in their expression, and it was by the peculiar appearance of haze or dreaminess which mixed with their light that I recognized my object.

Whether the fellows who now surrounded us were soldiers, or peaceful inhabitants, I did not understand: they wore the old Turkish costume; vests and jackets of many and brilliant colours, divided from the loose petticoat-trousers by heavy volumes of shawl, so thickly folded around their waists as to give the meagre wearers something of the dignity of true corpulence.

Holding these strong opinions on the subject with might and main as I do at this moment, here, nevertheless, is Count Fosco, as fat as Henry the Eighth himself, established in my favour, at one day's notice, without let or hindrance from his own odious corpulence.

Marian had prepared me for his high stature, his monstrous corpulence, and his ostentatious mourning garments, but not for the horrible freshness and cheerfulness and vitality of the man.

The accident of time might have helped him as well-his immense corpulence might have come with his later years.

Their horses were very handsome, but were not at all willing to display themselves by walking slowly, or in rank, and the riders would seem to have been selected for their corpulence, probably under the supposition that the weight of both men and horses would tell in a charge.

Thirty-five years after his first interview with his step-mother, and only a few months before his own death, when he was old and ailing, and the least exertion, by reason of his excessive corpulence, involved pain and trouble, he made a long journey to Bath for the sole purpose of paying Mrs. Gibbon a visit.

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