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I'm pretty sure Chesterton was fatter than GRRM, because Chesterton was roughly as girthy as he is and he was substantially taller. That translates into more weight.

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Jes Baker, author of "Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass"

>>16551048
trips and he dies before he finishes winds of winter

>>16551076
dubs and publishes at least two more prequel novellas that nobody wants before finally kicking the bucket

>>16551061
He was also a better writer.

>>16551092
dubs and he publishes the last two books but they turn out to be absolute shit and ruin the series as a whole

>>16551061
>GRRM is only 5'6"

>>16551108
trips and he dies, but they hire a ghost writer to finish the series. Everybody hates it, but readers have autistic shitfits on whether GRRM could have done it better or not, forever.

>>16551048
Can't remember where I got this little factoid from, but apparently they had to cut out a piece of a table so st. Thomas could sit at it.

>>16551121
Well that explains the cuckold fetish

>>16551061
Chesterton definitely has 100lbs on Gurm.

>>16551390
100?

>>16551066
Denett rejects the existence of qualia of him being fat

>>16551415
In the previous picture, maybe not in that one.

>>16551390
He weighed more than 300 pounds and he was 6'4". He must have absolutely mogged the shit out of everyone he got into close physical proximity to.

Aquinas was probably fatter

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>>16551565
Blasphemy

>>16551048
>>16551061

Supossedly Petrus Camper would have been fatter then Chesterton at his height.

>>16551550
I don't think you know what mogged means.

>>16551608
His name translates as "broad" as in broad-chested.

>>16551150
Dubs and he releases the final book but the last page abruptly cuts from the story to read: “Fuck Niggers!!!”

>>16551550
good god

>>16551061
This anon has an aptitude for playing how many jelly beans in the jar.

>>16553231
Dubs and he completes ASOIAF as a 9 book series and it is dramatically divergent from the tv show and actually pretty good and he gets to see before he dies a new and faithful and tv adaptation which is critically acclaimed and runs over 16 seasons.

Gentlemen, my disappointment knows no bounds.

Will we ever see a prominent author above 500 pounds?

>>16551095
never read chesterton before an am in the mood for a fat author. recommend me a chesterton book please?

>>16553863
Dubs and he finishes it but dies before the 2nd tv series wraps up.

>>16551550
Anyone have the photoshopped version of this where he's even more blimpy

>>16553947
the man who would be tuesday

you can also read the ballad of white horse to see how superior tolkien reads like

>>16553967
*who was thursday

anyway, 10/10 masterpiece

It's the symphony of love and it's gonna take you high above !

>>16553957
Dubs and he finishes it and gets to see the full tv but the tv show is now an animated show made by a French-Korean collaboration

>>16552477
>big-boned

>>16553868
If someone has so little control over their impulses that they can get to be 500lbs, what are the odds that they are also disciplined enough to write a book, let alone a good book?

>>16553868
I mean, Chesterton came pretty close I imagine.

It's strange seeing a fat old author when they were young and thin. I couldn't fat chesterton being the writer he was, but thin, young chesterton it is no surprise

>>16553864
judging from the pic, he doesnt look that bad

>>16555406
Dubs and he finishes the series and it's pretty alright I guess

>>16555491
Not surprisingly he was a noteworthy food writer.
From his essay, simply titled Cheese:
But cheese has another quality, which is also the very soul of song. Once in endeavouring to lecture in several places at once, I made an eccentric journey across England, a journey of so irregular and even illogical shape that it necessitated my having lunch on four successive days in four roadside inns in four different counties. In each inn they had nothing but bread and cheese; nor can I imagine why a man should want more than bread and cheese, if he can get enough of it. In each inn the cheese was good; and in each inn it was different. There was a noble Wensleydale cheese in Yorkshire, a Cheshire cheese in Cheshire, and so on. Now, it is just here that true poetic civilization differs from that paltry and mechanical civilization that holds us all in bondage. Bad customs are universal and rigid, like modern militarism. Good customs are universal and varied, like native chivalry and self-defence. Both the good and the bad civilization cover us as with a canopy, and protect us from all that is outside. But a good civilization spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilization stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella - artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform. So it is with the contrast between the substances that vary and the substances that are the same wherever they penetrate. By a wise doom of heaven men were commanded to eat cheese, but not the same cheese. Being really universal it varies from valley to valley. But if, let us say, we compare cheese to soap (that vastly inferior substance), we shall see that soap tends more and more to be merely Smith's Soap or Brown's Soap, sent automatically all over the world. If the Red Indians have soap it is Smith's Soap. If the Grand Lama has soap it is Brown's Soap. There is nothing subtly and strangely Buddhist, nothing tenderly Tibetan, about his soap. I fancy the Grand Lama does not eat cheese (he is not worthy), but if he does it is probably a local cheese, having some real relation to his life and outlook. Safety matches, tinned foods, patent medicines are sent all over the world; but they are not produced all over the world. Therefore there is in them a mere dead identity, never that soft play of variation which exists in things produced everywhere out of the soil, in the milk of the kine, or the fruits of the orchard. You can get a whisky and soda at every outpost of the Empire: that is why so many Empire builders go mad. But you are not tasting or touching any environment, as in the cider of Devonshire or the grapes of the Rhine. You are not approaching Nature in one of her myriad tints of mood, as in the holy act of eating cheese.

>>16556465
Continued (it's really good)
When I had done my pilgrimage in the four wayside public-houses I reached one of the great northern cities, and there I proceeded, with great rapidity and complete inconsistency, to a large and elaborate restaurant, where I knew I could get a great many things besides bread and cheese. I could get that also, however; or at least I expected to get it; but I was sharply reminded that I had entered Babylon, and left England behind. The waiter brought me cheese, indeed, but cheese cut up into contemptibly small pieces; and it is the awful fact that instead of Christian bread, he brought me biscuits. Biscuits - to one who had eaten the cheese of four great countrysides! Biscuits - to one who had proved anew for himself the sanctity of the ancient wedding between cheese and bread! I addressed the waiter in warm and moving terms. I asked him who he was that he should put asunder those whom Humanity had joined. I asked him if he did not feel, as an artist, that a solid but yielding substance like cheese went naturally with a solid, yielding substance like bread; to eat it off biscuits is like eating it off slates. I asked him if, when he said his prayers, he was so supercilious as to pray for his daily biscuits. He gave me generally to understand that he was only obeying a custom of Modern Society. I have therefore resolved to raise my voice, not against the waiter, but against Modern Society, for this huge and unparalleled modern wrong.

quads and winds of winter gets released tomorrow

>>16551048
I think old Gibbon beats him

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>>16556498
I'll say this about ol' fat guts Chesterton. He can write.

>>16553864
I dare say

>>16556541
>I have observed that a steak and kidney pie does no man good health, but two pies....

>>16556526
Yeah the way he is able to correlate two seemingly disconnected concepts like cheese and civilization and make it make sense is quite something. And to do it with such dash and style.

>>16556541
What a jolly ol' chap

>>16556874
I wholeheartedly agree. I believe he would be a far more popular writer if he were introduced through his earlier essays instead of his apologetics.

>>16551668
I hate fatties as much as the next guy but put him next to your average Joe and yeah he will mog him with his pure mass.