The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bog...us enthusiasm, the constant drinking and drabbing, the incessant squabbling over money, the all-pervasive agent, the strutting of the big shots (and their usually utter incompetence to achieve anything they start out to do), the constant fear of losing all this fairy gold and being the nothing they have never ceased to be, the snide tricks, the whole damn mess is out of this world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can live without it all-- love with its blood pump,... sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the whole Wilsonian buncombe ... its ideational hollowness, its ludicrous strutting and bombast, its heavy dependence upon gre...asy and meaningless words, its frequent descents to mere sound and fury, signifying nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can never see fashion models, lean angular cheeks, strutting hips... and blooming hair, without thinking of the skulls at the catacombs in Lima, Peru.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
--The strutting show-off is terrified, Dressed in his dress-suit,bulging his pants,... Trembles to think that his quivering meat Must finally wince to nothing at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »