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...what it must be like to see the world through the eyes of Andrew Kevin Walker. Imagine a seedy city, stewing in its own corruption, the heavy blackness of night not only covering the buildings and street but also the human soul. A layer of grit and filth permeating everything, even the skin of the inhabitants unfortunate enough to be living there. The city conceived as a concentration of misery and suffering in its purest form--when people die, they die violently and horribly. Good is corrupted, and evil abounds. There is no redemption. There are no happy endings...

Author: By Bill Gienapp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PORNOGRAPHERS | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...break out on your forehead and slowly travel down your face, into your nose, stinging your eyes. Your hands tremble and fumble with the pages. Yet still you remain transfixed. You read without a sense of yourself--aware only of the feel of paper and the putrid smell of filth and excrement clinging to the words. Occasionally the pages, white and luminous, drag you so deep inside their parameters that for brief moments, you literally imagine you are one of the victims, one of the inhuman, one of the blind. A cold fear clings to each word. You look...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Among the Blind, Chaos is King | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...There will be zero tolerance for those who dare to dabble in this filth," Cellucci said during the signing...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cambridge Recalls Murder Anniversary | 10/14/1998 | See Source »

Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting, just released his latest novel, Filth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Irvine Welsh | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...however, have done none of the above. As others scurried through the Yard to pay their fines, we idly sat by, raising our eyes only to mock them with piercing stares. We refused to pack, do laundry or shower. One day, while wallowing in our own filth, we had a bit of an epiphany. We stank. Rather than climbing the tree of knowledge offered by our school, we followed the path of sloth...

Author: By Sharon C. Yang, | Title: Deepti Choubey, We Hardly Knew Ye | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

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