Thus Ate Zarathustra

This is a recent article in the New Yorker by Woody Allen. It centres around “Friedrich Nietzsche’s Diet Book”.

Fat itself is a substance or essence of a substance or mode of that essence. The big problem sets in when it accumulates on your hips. Among the pre-Socratics, it was Zeno who held that weight was an illusion and that no matter how much a man ate he would always be only half as fat as the man who never does push-ups.