Word: excremention
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Price of a Patriot. Park permits the press and politicians to say almost anything they choose. Last September he even refused to intervene after an opposition member of the National Assembly, carried away by an emotional debate, poured a can of excrement over the heads of Park's Cabinet ministers. But Park's tolerance does have its limits. His government maintains a midnight-to-4-a.m. curfew over most of the country, and has enacted a tough anti-Communist law that gives the security police and the courts wide leeway in dealing with real or imagined subversives...
...pornos for they disgust and traffic in excrement...
...believe in excrement, I believe in pain alone...
...Streicher or an urban Schweitzer? His books illustrate rather than resolve the paradox. When Journey to the End of the Night detonated on the French literary scene in 1932 (there were riots when it did not receive that year's Prix Goncourt), it was like an explosion of excrement. The doctor who had a profound vocation for healing wrote of his pitiable patients with derision and rage. If he was antiSemitic, he also detested Christians...
...formal gavotte of French grammar and syntax-and used all the resources of thieves' argot, slum slang, and the shoptalk of pimps, prostitutes, bums, and pickpockets-to demonstrate the power and quality of his love of life and hatred for those who must live it. Coprological images-excrement, pus, gangrene, all the humiliating ironies of bodily decay-crowded this doctor's mind. Still, his language no longer shocks; today's black comedians, Genet, Burroughs and Terry Southern, seem like mere comics compared to Céline, who has more colors than black...