Life imitating b3ta?From today's Guardian:
There may be a few new insults, but the bathetic and sometimes inscrutable litany of fucks, cunts, wankers, prostitute poofs, cock VDs, sucks and the rest are still part of the city's background noise. The words do not shock in themselves, either in the context of Gilbert and George's works, or on the street: they are simply wearying, impotent and often aimless assaults on the consciousness. They are outward signs of a deeper malaise, trouble underfoot.
(There may be a few new insults, but the bathetic and sometimes inscrutable litany of fucks, cunts, wankers, prostitute poofs, cock VDs, sucks and the rest are still part of the city's background noise. The words do not shock in themselves, either in the context of Gilbert and George's works, or on the street: they are simply wearying, impotent and often aimless assaults on the consciousness. They are outward signs of a deeper malaise, trouble underfoot.
adverse_camber,
Tue 11 Jun 2002, 8:58,
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