A thought that I just had while reading a book. I'm on the last book in the dark tower series by Stephen King. It's an eight book epic, with dozens and dozens of separate characters. And these aren't all short books, the last one exceeds eight hundred pages. And through it all, there isn't one significant character that's fat, save for one. And that character is a selfish, myopic, entitled, bumbling, childlike idiot who'd rather sit in his own proverbial shit, even if it gets the literal world destroyed. An epic that long, and the only fat character is like every other fat that we've seen. If he wrote no fat characters at all, you might think that he just never thought to do so. But he did. And the result is very illuminating.