/lit/ - Literature

Oscar Wilde was a pretty fat fuck in his later years.

> Huxely

Chesterton

Chesterton and Zola were fatasses.

>sem·i·nal/ˈsemənl/
Adjective:

1. (of a work, event, moment, or figure) Strongly influencing later developments.
2. Of, relating to, or denoting semen.

>>2549751

I want sauce on this immediately.

>>2549746
bullshit

>>2549746

George R.R. Martin

Balzac

The Marquis de Sade got fat, but that was mostly because he was denied exercise in prison. He was a strapping man in his younger years.

I don't feel that fat people are per definition dumb, but they have shitty genes and/or a lack of discipline, just like drunks and junkies. The latter two have more interesting addictions however and therefore might write more interesting things. There's not much glamour in eating potato chips.

>>2549754

Err I meant Ballsack.

Nicole Elizabeth Polizzi.

>>2549780
>>2549768
>>2549771
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>>2549757

>Implying cannonical or seminal

>>2549773

>Implying de Sade was a good writer and not just famous for being lewd

>>2549751
>Implying this isn't a lie

Normal BMI Intellectuals: 1
Fatties: 0

I'd wager than many of the great authors of the past would be quite plump, if not outright obese, in today's world.

Dumas.

Aquinas

>>2549802
I was implying Sade has written a seminal or otherwise canonical piece of literature. Which he has.

Balzac
Dumas
Marx
Bakunin

http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism_and_obesity

>that feel when science

>>2549802

>implying Chesterton isn't seminal

>>2549819

No, but he is a man of colossal genius

Bro
we hate fat people

[citation needed] for Huxley even saying this in the first place.

>>2549826

>sem·i·nal/ˈsemənl/
>Adjective:
>(of a work, event, moment, or figure) Strongly influencing later developments.

>>2549819

I wouldn't know, I can't stand heavy reading

samuel johnson.

pow.

but really i agree. as a percentage, fat people really do suck at most things.

they're usually funnier than skinny people, but that's about the only area they excel in.

Thy couldn't even afford food.

>>2549832
Read Island you chucklefuck, Mrs. Rao exemplifies this.

>>2549818
>Kim Il Sung was a communist dictator and an obese atheist who died of a heart attack

lulz

>>2549839
>Mrs. Rao exemplifies this

Oh I forgot. characters must fall in line precisely to their creators opinions. there is absolutely no way that it could just be, oh you know... fictitious. Nope, none what so ever.

It was oldfatmode Hemminway that penned A Movable Feast.

Henry James

>>2549851

You clearly haven't read island -- it's not so much a work of fiction as it is Huxley's philosophical treatise on utopian societies; all of the characters represents something and are used to convey Huxley's opinions on the world around him. It's kind of allegorical.

imad/10

>>2549854

>It was oldfatmode Hemminway that penned A Movable Feast.
>oldfatmode Hemminway
>Hemminway

bukowski

>>2549874
i was arguing for its own sake

I think Byron would plump up every now due to the hindrance of his bad foot and the physical inactivity it caused.

>>2549818
>article about how atheists are fatter than theists
>thought this would be a typical example of silly, circuitous, nonsensical conservative logic
>actually it's backed up by research

>>2549834
>>2549826

Your Mother.

>>2549959

There's also a positive correlation between religiosity and mental health. Make of that what you will.

>>2551799
by positive correlation you mean mental health is better for the religious? i think health in general is better for the religious also, at least blood pressure is.

>>2549959
researching that involve cherry picking examples and assuming positive correlation from coincidence.

>>2551799
everyone knows life is hard and delusion is an effective coping strategy.

>>2551809
>delusion
where is the delusion in religion?

>>2551808
thats not true at all. religious people work harder than atheists so their blood pressure and stress levels are bound to be through the roof.

Ivan Gontsjarov

>>2551812
Please dont start that debate. I just meant that life is a cruel incessant series of painful and pathetic tragedies. The truth of the matter is irrelevant. but faith is a strategy to deal with this. take away the faith and you might have a consistent intellect but it's one at the mercy of suffering with no consolation.

>>2549746
>fat writers are wealthy writers, ergo, write pop-lit
The best are starving artists.

>>2551808

Yes.

>>2551809

>researching that involve cherry picking examples and assuming positive correlation from coincidence.

Have you looked into their methodology or something?

>everyone knows life is hard

Not necessarily...

>and delusion is an effective coping strategy.

Delusions aren't an "effective coping strategy" at all. They're actually related to mental illness, which is apparently more likely to afflict atheists than religious people.

>>2551829

Are you saying that a writer's popularity/fame are directly and inversely proportional to his skill?

>>2551847

The delusion argument implies religion is a delusional episode on a cultural scale. This logic ignores so many variables it's best left alone completely.

>>2551850
Yes.

Look at Joyce,
Famous but talentless
Look at GRRM
Fat and talentless


Good writers are heroinchic and 'obscure'.

Minus Hemingway, that sexy talented bastard.

>>2551847
I said religion is a coping strategy, idiot.
and it's a delusion if its not true. which can't be ascertained. I'm not hear to discuss truth anyway. religion is a coping strategy

and

>Not necessarily...
can only come from the inexperienced or the privileged. Life is hard for the majority of people, most of which find consolation in religion. Thats why thy're healthier.

>>2551864

Why does it always come back to Hemingway, that magnificent asshole.

>>2551857

You're probably right.

>>2551865

>I said religion is a coping strategy, idiot.

You said that delusion was a coping strategy, implying that religious belief is delusive.

>and it's a delusion if its not true. which can't be ascertained.
>which can't be ascertained.

Then we can't call it a delusion.

>can only come from the inexperienced or the privileged.

What a silly thing to say...

>Life is hard for the majority of people,

That's a matter of perspective and opinion.

>>2551864
Henry James.

HENRY JAMES.

fuck off.

Also, Socrates.

>>2549746

BUT HUXLEY WAS ACCURATE. HE MADE AN OBSERVATION, HE DID NOT PROPOSE A "HYPOTHESIS".

"INTELLECT" EQUALSNOT "WRITING SKILLS" OR OTHER "MECHANICAL SKILLS".

>>2551895

Nor is it expressed by your misuse of the upper-case.

Good day sir.

>>2551885
I said religion was a coping strategy and that it may be delusory

>Then we can't call it a delusion.

it is a fantasy whether it corresponds to 'reality' or not. yes this is not a contradiction.

>That's a matter of perspective and opinion.

it's really not. Death is experience by all indirectly and at first hand.

>>2551912
>Death is experience by all indirectly and at first hand.
not everyone sees death in the same way.

>>2551923
yeah and you know the biggest thing to influence that: religion.

>>2551949
probably the biggest thing but not the only thing. you can have a non-miserable viewpoint of death even without an afterlife. why do you think death is inherently miserable?

Hume

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolved-primate/200912/cardiovascular-fitness-is-linked-intellig
ence
>mfw fat people are statistically less intelligent

>>2549746
There wasn't any french writer in the 19th century who wasn't fat as fatass.

Tolstoy? oh no wait, that's just what his surname means in russian, he wasn't actually fat.

Dunno about writers, but I'm pretty sure Buddha was a fatass and you know he's big with the elvens.

Why hello there.

>Somatotypes
lol

>>2552027
thats budai, you swine. sakyamuni buddha wasn't fat

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

>>2552133
trust you to respond to something on buddhism. you aren't asian. your infatuation with that tradition is superficial. if it's not in your cultural milieu, you can't appreciate it.

and the budai/buddha thing is a rudimentary distinction. you should have resisted.

>>2552153
>you aren't asian
uhhh

>>2552155
pics or it isn't true. also if your indian, it doesn't count.

>>2551965
This, a million times over.

>>2552155
in fact, you might be chinese but if you grew up in the west then your fascination with eastern philosophy is still lacking substance.

goddammit hakas, you are such a poser.

>>2552157
none of what you said makes sense. also how is the distinction rudimentary? theres a historical figure and a character from folklore.

http://cdn-i.dmdentertainment.com/funpages/cms_content/18287/Youarereadingaboutthiswomanssexualf.jpg

>>2552165
did you not just imply that you are asian? if yes, then i am making sense.
also it only demands a basic understanding of the philosophy, thats whats rudimentary. and its why you should be able to ignore the compulsion to correct that remark. the only reason you did is to pose

Checkmate.

>>2552182
are you american or are you just really shit at geography?
>I'm pretty sure buddha was a fatass
why would you say that? how does that correlate to a basic understanding of the philosophy? the only foundation for that is the depictions of budai.

>>2552197

He looks like the type of guy who would eat his own semen.
So I guess in that sense he is seminal.
Dude could have just written a great book.

>>2552199
>just really shit at geography?

lolwut what has anything we're talking about got to do with geography?

>why would you say that?

I never said that. and I didn't say taht statement was a basic understanding of buddhism. I said your correction of that statement was from a basic understanding. because you are only posing with your eastern religion.

>>2552220
are you the same poster as >>2552157?
>I said your correction of that statement was from a basic understanding.
because more than a basic understanding isn't needed to correct a statement like that.
>because you are only posing with your eastern religion.
whatever gets you to sleep at night, man.

>>2552234
>are you the same poster as >>2552157?

Yes, why?

>>2552239
then why doesnt being indian count as being asian?

Tolkien a bit on the chubby side.

>>2552259
* was