John Baxter is most definitely a committed component of the core community. Guardianistas are also, alas, the sort of people who write biographies of J.G. What is that erogenous zone? Well, though not all liberals are Guardianistas, all Guardianistas are liberals, so the largest erogenous zone in a Guardianista’s body is his-or-her narcissism. A book for Guardian-readers, in short – the sort of people who continually use and hear the phrase “in terms of”, who believe passionately in Equality, Justice, and the Fight against Hate, and who desperately, desperately, wished they’d been able to stimulate the largest erogenous zone in their bodies by voting for Barack Obama in 2008.
It’s a book for pretentious, wanna-be-intellectual adolescents of all ages who like Dark’n’Dangerous Sex’n’Violence. The last time I tried to read it I quickly gave up. Vermilion Sands is surreal, haunting, funny, endlessly inventive, and extravagantly intelligent. I’ve never read Bataille, I can’t stand Burroughs, I used to love Ballard. “B” is for Bataille, Burroughs, and Ballard. Readers’ Advisory: Contains Self-abuse and reference to Mancas.
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