Fat?

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Heikki comments:
"My hypothesis:  nowadays it is the fitness of your body that passes for the
Sign to Americans. It is *the lack of something* - fat - that makes you one
of the Elect. One can notice here the relatively strict division between fit
people and those who have given up. So many Americans don't know what to think
of my quite small - but still recognizable, as Mikko Keskinen for one knows -
beer belly, this jolly supplement."


Notice the number of fat or at least pudgy Pynchon characters: Lardass Levine,
Meatball Mulligan, Benny Profane.  And when we get to it on the GRGR, we
should say something about Slothrop trying to whip those fat cells into shape!

Don Larsson, Mankato State U(MN)