Monday, September 24, 2018

In Praise of Great Fat Men


Yes, it's true I'm fat. So are my favorite men of history and fiction. Here are a few.

Gabriel Pascal (one of Baba's close disciples, whom he named his Phoenix)

Alfred Hitchcock, British American director

Benjamin Franklin, one of the geniuses of the Enlightenment

Winston Churchill (Baba called him the 'hero' of WWII)

Nero Wolf (one of Baba's favorite fictional characters)

Orson Welles (Baba saw Citizen Kane and praised it)

Peter Jackson, director of Lord of the Rings

Sam Baggins (Baba read and loved Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, and marveled at the scene in the Hobbit where their eating made the hobbit's buttons pop off their vests.

St. Thomas Aquinas (first Aristotelian arguments for the existence of God)

Burl Ives, actor

Marlon Brando, actor


John Belushi, actor

W. C. Fields, actor

Theodore Roosevelt, American president

Homer Simpson (Mani Irani loved the Simpsons, and was known to say "Beer me Marge."

Jackie Gleason, actor

Buddha (some time after his fast he was found fat by his previous comrades, who became his disciples)

Babe Ruth (Baba watched an entire Yankees game at Fred Winterfeldt's apartment in NY.)

Santa Clause, symbol of generosity and love of children

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