/lit/ - Literature

>>22481504
The social class that created gentlemen died, being an intellectual isn't prominent as a laudable social achievement anymore, and being fat is now for poor people.

>>22481504
Poor people are fat now, not rich people.

>>22481504
Don't know but I continue being a fat intellectual

>>22481504
heart disease

>>22481504
Was Chesterton the last?

>>22481504
>>22481792
MWAAAAAAAAAAAAAH THE FRENCH

>>22481792
Orson Welles was probably up there but he preferred the microphone and the camera to the pen

>>22481504
BC he relaxed

>>22481504
It didn't. There's one in my uni, and he's also really short and well-respected among his peers and students.

In [current year] all the rich people are pretending to be poor and all the poor people are pretendinf to be rich so there aren't many true gentlemen around anymore

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>>22481504
As others said, being fat is no longer a symbol of wealth, just lack of self-care.
And collective society that mostly consists of plebians without self care who are not kept in constant pursuit of noble values by jealousy of upper classes, can not and will not cultivate gentlemen, instead producing people who are equivalent to crustaceans on the evolutionary tree - the lowest effort for highest reward.
Crabs if you will.
Yes these ruffians do the job in everyday work or even literature production but they are not gentlemen, just how crabs are not humans.
pic unrelated.

>>22481504
FAT-ASS INTELLECTUAL GENTLEMAN FACTOID OF THE DAY:

David Hume was a real chonker (so much so that he habitually broke chairs). Supposedly he got down on one knee to propose marriage to some girl or other and couldn't get back up.

Gives new meaning to Nietzsche's remark "a married philosopher is ridiculous".