Robert Verdon, #26, T. Nutgusts, famed Gigglebusterìan poet … quotes from the disastrous Paris Review interview

1. science and art are both arcane, but science has the ‛spin-off’ of technology, art has only craftwork and writers specifically have journalism and greeting card verse!

2. [told cleverly in sign language]

3. class is prior; even ‛identities’ (women, blacks, ‛queers’) are circumscribed by their access to the means of production

4. [redacted]

5. I’m a raw food vegan because I like to eat my food alive …

6. [too embarrassing to report]

7. back home us kids used to wear cloth caps and eat black puddings with the name ‛Arthur Scargill’ showing all the way through — long live the British Stalin Society!

8. [unintelligible, fists raised]

9. any more grappa?

10. Aren’t you going to show me round fockin’ Paris …?