Writing from the standpoint of the fat man whom nobody loved (and by the way, the reason for his unpopularity was doubtless his counting of calories): nothing seems more unfair than' that he should be obliged to bear "the cross of. his dieting in' heroic silence. He is being a martyr, he is refusing his or memory culture to enable them to compute unostentatiously the not results of their meals and then maintain a dignified secrecy on the subject. This would "cause tremendous mental anguish. We know it. But-on the other hand the effort of repression might be so wearing as to help one to sublimate several pounds by that very
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