Word: excrementalism
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...half-forgotten neighborhoods has a bombed-out, end-of-a-war appearance; about all of them lingers the stale odor of moldering plaster and rotting wood. Peeling paint is everywhere; streets glisten with shards of glass from broken windows. Front doors have been ripped from their hinges, and human excrement often litters the stairwells. Interior partitions are punched through, floors broken up and obscene pictures scrawled on the walls. Yet in their essential structure, the hulks are often solid and no more unattractively designed than the millions of other elderly buildings that form the bulk of the nation...
...other tadieals who believe in the correctness of violence, is an assertion of the sense of autonomy, transcending the sense of shame, or doubt. The free use of obscenity and disrespectful terms for persons in authority, is a recapitulation of vulgar infantile aggression patterns involving the use of excrement. So-called "permissiveness," actually the inhibition of parental anger, leaves the rage of both parent and child untested, and so in later life the child of a permission parent is likely to revert to this stage of development in an attempt to express his anger. ?? this retrogression is latent in most...
...lovers are legion. The result of one liaison toddles toward me through broken glass and excrement. He's less than two years old. He lived with Judy's sister until recently, but Judy took him back to get some welfare money. Now they are living in this one-room place. 'It's got no windows,' she says. 'But that's nothing. I've never lived in a house with windows...
...Flarbs instantly reverting upon decapitation to Excrement, dismounting was unnecessary. The increased Shrillness of those who remained on the Field compensated any Decrease in Volume occasioned by the Loss of seventy-four-and-a-half Brayers. The shrill Cry flew up to the Heart of Momus, God of Faultfinding. He rushed, though but wrapped in a flimsy Petition, straight to the Side of the Mentor. Shrillest of the Group...
...still alive who could have knowledge of the death, the author has reconstructed certain essentials. There was extreme disorder in both Masaryk's bedroom and bathroom-pillows on the bathroom floor and in the dry tub, glass bottles from the medicine chest ground under foot, a smear of excrement on the sill. Strangely, Masaryk had gone out the bathroom window even though it was much smaller than the one in the bedroom and very awkward to reach...