The Fat and the Thin

Etext prepared by Dagny, dagnypg@yahoo.com and John Bickers, jbickers@ihug.co.nz

THE FAT AND THE THIN (LE VENTRE DE PARIS) BY EMILE ZOLA TRANSLATED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY ERNEST ALFRED VIZETELLY

Let me have men about me that are fat:

Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights:

Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look;

He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

SHAKESPEARE: Julius Caesar, act i, sc. 2.