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My commute to work was made excellent the other day when I saw a motorcyclist try to ride on the pavement to avoid a traffic queue, lose control, fall off and land bollock-first on a concrete bollard. He was fine, eventually – but tell us your tales of the old blinding agony to the gentleman's or gentlewoman's area.

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I've read it ... what's good about it?

(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 8:22, 1 reply)
is it 'real' or just a delusion of patrick's?
the throwaway culture where a person can be someone entirely different to someone else. views on women, if you like that sort of subtext. it's a social comment wrapped up in a gorefest snuggled in a snapshot.
(I helped save b3ta! janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 8:41, closed)
it also plays with notions of the Body, the City, the Gothic, vampires and irony.
Also marks the turning point in BEE's output from minimalist moralism to hyperreal satire, using fictionality to shuffle the traditional tropes of postwar American literature.

And tits and that.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 8:46, closed)
"satire"
That word used to actually mean something. Now it apparently means "this is shit on purpose lulz".
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 9:04, closed)
Oh man you're well clever.
*swoons*
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 9:50, closed)
You forgot to mention the Abject.
That's de rigueur whenever the Gothic is brought up.
(I helped save b3ta! Pig Bodine., Tue 12 Mar 2013, 14:00, closed)
The abject doesn't really feature in American Psycho, and the Gothicness is in the traditional sense of it being about power structures.
It's not 'body gothic', which is where the abject usually comes in to play.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 14:29, closed)
I'd say there's an argument that AP can be read as an intersection of the Gothic, the Abject and Seltzer's Wound Culture.
Mainly because I'm awkward.
(I helped save b3ta! Pig Bodine., Tue 12 Mar 2013, 17:04, closed)
I'd agree with that to a point.
My take on it is Punter's 'Monster and Terrorist', but using constructions of the female body in connecting post-Burroughs concepts of the masculine to a postmodern reading of the vampire image. Vampirism as Burroughs addressed the concept in Naked Lunch.

Mainly because I'm a massive wanker.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 17:53, closed)
This is reaching Stewart Lee levels of meta.
The self-referential irony is amazing, and I understand it, because I'm extremely intelligent.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 17:59, closed)
So it's an incredibly weak re-hashing of Tzu's "reality versus fantasy" idea.
A trope so worn out that it only really surfaces in pulp sci-fi.

And a social commentary? Really? On what, exactly? He's a cardboard caricature of a stereotype of something that never really existed and he nicked out of the film Wall Street.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 9:03, closed)
look, the point of literature is that you enjoy your own gains.
alt: fuck off
(I helped save b3ta! janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 11:52, closed)
I don't know what those words in that order mean.
Is it code?
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 12:27, closed)

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