Fascimiles

"Actually, individuals have a tendency to pick a weight, one way or the other, at which they're comfortable. The body likes to have spare energy to run on, likes to do various things and a guy will get an energy level he's comfortable in. ...

"Now, you're going to cut this person's weight down. Not unless—not unless you remedy a few other things, believe me. Person feels better with a little bit of weight. Another thing, mass counts for something in this society. All that seems to mean anything to the current society is mass. If you get into a fight, always pick a very slender person with not much weight, because they can't put any beef behind a blow. Always do that. And not necessarily shorter. Preferably pick some very tall, very, very thin fellow and he'll be real tired.

"These people are voracious eaters but they never put on any weight through eating. I seriously doubt that anybody ever puts on any weight through eating. I think they put on weight through making a facsimile of the food which they are stuffing in their mouths and digesting the facsimile. And if they're unwilling to make a facsimile of the food, they can't eat. They can get no good out of food at all. This is also demonstrable in processing."