small ship by albin
What rapture! Ah, what misery!
Yet from this vision I can’t turn aside.
How strange that such a lovely neck
A single band of crimson must bedeck!
A knife’s edge scarcely seems less wide.
”the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants. He is the type that gives rise to the jokes in the funny papers.”
“The monster of advertisement… is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat, to spit out again at the public.”
This being my 2 full day sittings back to back octopus advertisement encouraging everyone to get serious about taking care of business. suckers.