Squalor


Severe Domestic Squalor
Eileen
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
Blindness
History of Andersonville Prison
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Human beings in there took turns standing or lying down. The legs of those who stood were like fence posts driven into a warm, squirming, farting, sighing earth. The queer earth was a mosaic of sleepers who nestled like spoons.
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

The mask of art is the means through which corruption is spread. The mask makes vice seem beautiful, turns squalor and nastiness into glamorous thrill, seduces the onlooker into the game – and leaves him or her with the corpse on his hands.
Jennifer Birkett

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