“Commoners are weightless. But he was a royal bon vivant who, no matter what, always weighed 125 kilos. I would be very surprised if he didn’t have a few pounds left.”

—  Jean Paul Sartre , The Flies

A soldier in Argos, speaking of the dead King Agamemnon, Act 2
The Flies (1943)

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