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My idea of fun
a cautionary tale
By Self, Will
- ISBN
- 978-0-87113-565-0
- Publisher
- New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 1994
Ian Wharton's idea of fun is decapitating and then debauching elderly derelicts on the London tube. Or so says one of his selves in this often repulsive, ultimately fascinating commentary on the duality existent in the human psyche (i.e., as in De Quincey's dreamer, who "finds housed within himself . . . some horrid alien nature'') and the seeming insanity of our time, when that alien nature seems too often to be running rampant. Burroughs-like in i...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
