Re: RAT Two or Three Other Things To Which We Believe Mr Wilder (Thank God) Never Sunk

[Audie McCall <audiemccall@yahoo.com>]

--- MMA <Diogenes_@compuserve.com> wrote:
> Item,  from the Sunday NY Times Book Review of 
> EXPLOSIVE ACTS:
> Toulouse-Lautrec, Oscar Wilde, Félix Fénéon and the
> Art & Anarchy of the
> Fin de Siècle.
> 
>         'Shortly before the end of the book, two
> photographs show the
> diminutive painter grinning cheekily as he 
>         defecates on a beach. Even at this late
> stage, he is a complete
> stranger. So little of his personality has 
>         emerged that we can only wonder: was this
> self-abasement,
> exhibitionism or a demonstration of a favored 
>         dictum, ''L'art, c'est de la merde''? 


Proving-- as if we needed proof-- that as long as one
has a poop-shoot, one need not be at a loss for novel
ways to be cliche.
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