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Another way of condensing and expressing the feeling of starvation and misery was to say how many kilos one had lost. “I lost thirty-five kilos in the first three months!” “Aziz lost thirty kilos in prison camp!” Again there is no reason to disbelieve this. The point, however, is the sentiment such a statement is able to carry. The accurate enumeration of the number of kilos lost is not a mere factual calculation, but rather a symbolic visualisation of hunger.