The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
“A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.”
“Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.”