Wordie: Prurient: Comments

Comment by Prolagus, about 1 year ago

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:27:06 +0000

TV is not vulgar and prurient and dumb because the people who compose the audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests.

(David Foster Wallace)

Comment by seanahan, over 2 years ago

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:44:19 +0000

That's a bizarre title.

Comment by abiohphobia, over 2 years ago

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:18:39 +0000

it's from a poem entitled 'bubble baths and crystal meth'

Comment by seanahan, over 2 years ago

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:07:11 +0000

That's a bizarre quote.

Comment by abiohphobia, over 2 years ago

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:09:09 +0000

"...at times the shock presents as an imploding clock -
a Dali-esque reminder that if we invented Time (and
hoo! we did) we could invent alternatives far more sublime -
and truer to the prurient experience of ogling Eternity:
close enough for us to sense its meat."