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Alla budskap är så fruktansvärt stora, sade jag. De får knappast plats i litteraturen. Jag vågar inte tänka på, tillade jag, hur ohyggligt svårt det skulle vara om jag till råga på eländet hade ett budskap.

Den som sjunger medan han äter ska gråta innan han skiter.

Om han [Mozart] hade känt till dragspelet, sade farbror Hjalmar, då skulle han ha skrivit Livet i Finnskogarna.

No, those were sorry people all the way round, ever man jack a three hundred and sixty degree son of a bitch, which my daddy said meant they was a son of a bitch any way you looked at em.

I'll say one thing about Lester though. You can trace em back to Adam if you want and goddamn if he didn't outstrip em all.

Man of leisure like yourself, the sheriff Said. You oughtn't to mind helpin us workers unscramble a little misunderstandin. This way, mister.

The old man's eyes was run out on stems like a crawfish and his tongue blacker'n a chow dog's. I wisht if a man wanted to hang hisself he'd do it with poison or somethin so folks wouldn't have to see such a thing as that.

As "sex" fragments the body, so the lesbian overthrow of "sex" targets as models of domination those sexually differentiated norms of bodily integrity that dictates what "unifies" and renders coherent the body as a sexed body.

Brian [Eno] was very complimentary of our sound, which he later described as “The rhythm section is like a ship or a train—very forceful and certain of where it’s going. On top of that you have this hesitant, doubting quality that dizzily asks, ‘Where are we going?’ That makes for a sense of genuine disorientation, unlike the surface insanity of the more commonplace, expressionist punk bands.”

You could say that Tina [Weymouth] and I were the team who made David Byrne famous. We were very good at shining the spotlight on him.

Femininity becomes a mask that dominates/resolves a masculine identification, for a masculine identification would, within the presumed heterosexual matrix of desire, produce a desire for a female object, the Phallus; hence, the donning of femininity as mask may reveal a refusal of female homosexuality and, at the same time, the hyperbolic incorporation of the female Other who is refused – an odd form of preserving and protecting that love within the circle of the melancholic and negative narcissism that results from the psychic inculcation of compulsory heterosexuality.

The problematic circularity of a feminist inquiry into gender is underscored by the presence of positions, which, on the one hand, presume that gender is a secondary characteristic of persons and those which, on the other hand, argue that the very notion of the person, positioned within language as a “subject”, is a masculinist construction and prerogative which effectively excludes the structural and semantic possibility of a feminine gender.

A new band was being born, a band that acted as a law unto itself. Overseas groups such as Pere Ubu, The Pop Group and The Fall had arrived with the force of deconstructive genius, suggesting that the most unconventional of vocalists, the most uncomfortable of rhythms, the ugliest and most amateurish of sounds could build another musical world. These were the bands The Boys Next Door regarded as their true peers.