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James J. O'Meara's avatar

"So, surrounding themselves with gross art and gross people became a kind of flex for the big city types and a way to repel ordinary people from their circles."

Aside though it may be, I think this explains the entire postwar "avant garde" or "hip" or "beat" movement, the Grove Press Gang or Calder Crowd (from their US and UK publishers). The earlier "Modernists" tried to do the same thing by being "difficult" to read. Joyce combined both tropes, Ulysses being both difficult and dirty.

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NTMI's avatar

Abrahamic Judoism, you say?

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