It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged" - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur "Thou still unravished bride of quietness," then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.
Terence Francis Eagleton is a British literary theorist regarded as one of Britain's most influential living literary critics. Eagleton currently serves as Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster, and as a former Visiting Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
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