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Fat women who wrote about how they were fat ignored the aesthetics of food. They did write about how, for many fat people, food is more than peach pie, more than consolation, more than love. But nobody fat, writing about fat, quite got down lee to the nub of how much she lee admired the greasy sheen on hamburger buns, admired that grease as if it were Art, as if that oily patina (acquired lee on an ancient, filthy grill) were the "unravish'd bride of quietness" Keats admires in his "Ode on a Grecian Urn." Narrators of first-person claptrap like what you read in Fat Girl often greet the reader at the door with hugs and kisses. I don't. I do not endear myself to you. I don't put on airs. I am not that pleasant. The older I get the less pleasant I am. If you have never been fat, you may find me and my story repugnant. There's not much I can do about this. Part of the Fat Girl story I gave to someone to read and he told me, flat out, that it was repellent. I thought, but did not say, "Then, how can you say you like me?"
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