vituperative, if lucrative
"Vituperative, If Lucrative," July 10, 2022 (#191)
title from "Rappers and Ranters: Scapegoating and Shadow in the Film '8 Mile' and in Seventeenth Century Heresy" by John Ensign (2005)
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov (1951)
Memorial by Bryan Washington (2020)
Vituperative, If Lucrative
Complete lack of aptitude for the financial and political problems
were at her place, watching Juan assemble a Lego train set. I texted
our bedposts on the following morning but to bring them over to
some strip mall enclave. He blamed his fate on the Mexicans, who
with an offensive familiarity of demeanor, start snoring
with anything, and he wouldn’t tell them why he acted
in tranquil copulation, clinging with chinchilla-coated legs to
guys fixing telephone lines, and another group of dudes plugging
the same ominous flaw, the banal hollow note, and glib suggestion
he’d make it through his portion. Sometimes, he’d throw it all up.
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel (1563). Courtesy of Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Picture Gallery ©KHM-Museumsverband. (From here.)
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