Account Deleted By User I was out running a 16k last night with the Dune audiobook for company. Then, this happened: The Baron moved out and away from the globe of Arrakis. As he emerged from the shadows, his figure took on dimension—grossly and immensely fat. And with subtle bulges beneath folds of his dark robes to reveal that all this fat was sustained partly by portable suspensors harnessed to his flesh. He might weigh two hundred Standard kilos in actuality, but his feet would carry no more than fifty of them. “I am hungry,” the Baron rumbled, and he rubbed his protruding lips with a beringed hand, stared down at Feyd-Rautha through fat-enfolded eyes. “Send for food, my darling. We will eat before we retire.” Excerpt From: Frank Herbert. “Dune.” The thing is, in 1965 a 200kg (400lb) butterslug was most likely unheard of. Now? Hit Walmart and there they all are on display, looking for these fatty suspensor harnesses I suspect.  I remember seeing the fat guy in the David Lynch film version, but he wasn't 200kg and this shit right here made me think of all the HAEStee hee activists that are out there these days.  Any more examples of fat characters being nasty (because Harkonnen is a nasty fat piece of shit) in books that are worth quoting?