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Med harde bevegelser trykket Tormod klumpen ned i stålkolben på eltemaskinen og helte på det galvaniserte vannet fra en dunk, slik skulle han få fart på leiren igjen. Men idet stålkolben begynte å spinne, og eltekrokene grov seg inn i leiren, da skjedde noe underlig. Klumpen ga fra seg et langtrukkent, metallisk ul. Det var et innestengt, forpint hyl, som en defekt ble tonesatt. Maken hadde Tormod aldri hørt. Eller, jo. Hvis han tenkte etter, hørtes skriket nøyaktig ut som Axl Rose sitt skingrende, trange 12 sekunder lange hvin, midt i Slash’ heftige gitarsolo nr. 2, etter taktskiftet, i etterspillet (ca. 7:24) på November Rain, for den som husker det.

Et sted som har skapt problemer for en del radikalere, er Iran, der revolusjonen mot det oligarkiske sjah-styret endte opp med et religiøst dogmokrati. Noen biter stemte med kartet – kampen mot den vestlige kapitalismen og imperialismen, da særlig erkefienden USA, avvisning av det borgerlige demokratiet og den illusoriske ytringsfriheten, kamp mot porno og prostitusjon osv – men resultatet med tilslørte bypiker og offentlige halshugginger var ikke helt enkelt. På den annen side, i Kina er det jo også populært med offentlige henrettelser, og parolen «Nei til salg av kvinnekroppen» blir jo godt ivaretatt av hijaber og slør. Likevel, ytterst få ml-ere lot seg begeistre av Khomeinis radikalisme – med unntak av Palestina-aktivisten Trond Ali Linstad og noen av hans medisinerkolleger.

It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us—the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.

Notably deficient in proper hostility toward the Jews were the Scandinavian nations (Knut Hamsun and Sven Hedin were exceptions), which, according to the Nazis, were Germany’s blood brethren.

Bono provided invaluable counsel in the early stages of the work that led to this book.

But I did use Twitter to help a micro-budget movie I'd written get funded, as well as to find its male lead, and once to mistakenly, drunkenly, order drugs. I'd thought I was texting.

Barbra Streisand told the media she was gaining weight because of Trump. Lena Dunham told media she was losing weight because of Trump. People everywhere were now blamimg the president for their own problems and neuroses.

When I accepted the invitation I had no idea that GLAAD [(Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation)] harbored any resentment toward me as someone who occasionally expressed his distaste for stereotypical Hollywood representation in transgressive language on his Twitter account. In fact, GLAAD had nominated The Rules of Attraction as movie of the year in 2003; it lost to The Hours, where (of course) a tormented gay man with AIDS conmits suicide by throwing himself out of a window in front of Meryl Streep.

[Jean-Michel] Basquiat asked why there were so few black people in my first two novels and I said something about the casual racism of the white society I was depicting and we lit up cigarettes as we walked back, high, to the respective groups at our tables—just a typical encounter for me in the fall of 1987.

Big Other poaches our behavior for surplus and leaves behind all the meaning lodged in our bodies, our brains, and our beating hearts, not unlike the monstrous slaughter of elephants for ivory. Forget the cliché that it’s free, “You are the product.” You are not the product; you are the abandoned carcass. The “product” derives from the surplus that is ripped from your life.

“I wanna tell you, Miss Chi-Chi: that dike was so dam butch if Ah wahnt such a lady muhself, why, I wouldda turned straight for huh…. Why, they are gettin butchuh and butchuh each year—those dam bulldikes. And Ah don mine tellin you Ah personally think it is ob-see-an: girls dressed like men!”

“Oh, man, did you hear about Miss Destinee?—you remember her, the far-out queen with the redhair? Well, man, some queen was saying how she got this letter from Destinee. An remember this ah this ah head doctor she was going to, man?—the one she said she would have on the couch next time? Well, he finally cured Miss Destinee, man—Miss Destinee wrote she ain a queen no more, she has honest-to-jesus-gone-Christ turned stud, man!—an that ain all, man” he goes on gleefully “—Miss Destinee wrote she is getting married, man!—to a real woman!...”

At no other time in history have private corporation of unprecedented wealth and power enjoyed the free exercise of economies of action supported by a pervasive global architecture of ubiquitous computational knowledge and control constructed and maintained by all the advanced scientific know-how that money can buy.

Én ting skal du være klar over, det er at hvis du hadde vært i Belgia eller Nederland og hadde bedt om aktiv dødshjelp, med den depresjonen du sleper på ville du ha fått det uten problemer.

Vi var ikke lenger i de tider da mødrene hilste sine sønners homoseksualitet velkommen med lettelse, de flytter sammen som par i våre dager, de små homsene, og unnslipper mødrenes dominans like godt som andre.

På det først bildet er ansiktet opplyst av et strålende smil, hun formelig eksploderer av lykke – og det forekommer meg i dag avsindig å si at kilden til hennes lykke, det er meg.