Rushdie & Pynchonian Paranoia

[jbor]

on 15/1/02 7:53 PM, Otto at o.sell at telda.net wrote:

> I knew a man once whose thing it was to wreck the toilets in office
> buildings and write a slogan on the ruined walls: "If the cistern cannot be
> changed it must be destroyed."
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4132141,00.html

This reminds me of a memorable piece of graffiti I once saw. Someone had
scrawled a paraphrase of the old Hanns Johst line often attributed to
Hermann Goering, 'Whenever I hear the word culture I reach for my gun', to
which some wag had appended the response 'Microbiologists beware!'

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