Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sor...t of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How are we to know that a Dracula is a key-pounding pianist who lifts his hands up to his face, or that a bass fiddle is the dogho...use, or that shmaltz musicians are four-button suit guys and long underwear boys?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They were regular in being gay, they learned little things that are things in being gay, they learned many little things that are ...things in being gay, they were gay every day, they were regular, they were gay, they were gay the same length of time every day, they were gay, they were quite regularly gay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »