Tell me about your father
Julia from Montreal writes:
- I am curious as to the roots of your angst. May I analyze you? Tell me,
just by free association, what random words you relate to 'anomie'.
Anomie. Anomia. Ammonia. Amon-Ra. Ra-Ra-Rasputin, Russia's Greatest Love Machine.
Metal Machine Music (Lou Reed album). The Velvet Underground. Velvet Revolution. Velvet Carpet.
Bum-Chum Toilet Roll - Like Laying A Velvet Carpet Up Your Arse (old advertising slogan).
Roll Over Beethoven. Ode to Joy. Ode on a Grecian Urn. What's a Grecian Urn? About ten
drachmas an hour. Rimshot. Rimbaud. Baudelaire. Absinthe. Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
Jane Fonda. Barbarella. Barbarossa. Barbar the Elephant. Bar-bar-bar-bar-Barbara-Ann.
O Barbara-Annnn. In my hand. Masturbate. Grandmother. Grand Marnier. Le Grand Meaulnes.
Alain-Fournier. Jean-Paul Gaultier. Jean-Paul Sartre. Existentialist. Anomie. Anomia. Ammonia.
Repeat ad infinitum.
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