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Malene Arpe

On Fred Williard being arrested for lewd conduct at a porn theatre in Los Angeles (taken from http://www.thestar.com):

This is, of course, all kinds of embarrassing for Willard, but there are a few things I don’t understand. Having never visited that kind of establishment, I’m not privy to the etiquette, but are customers expected to sit and watch without taking their pants off? And if so, why would they go there in the first place? And why are the police wasting time walking through theatres on the off-chance that a senior citizen gets a little rowdy? And, also, perhaps someone could show Willard how to access the internet. I understand there’s a bit of porn there if someone is so inclined.

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Rawi Hage

“It saddened me to erase happiness with water. It saddened me to drown sighs and sparkles with hoses. And then it saddened me to bring back the shine and the glitter” (excerpt from “Cockroach”)