Patrick Bateman?>it did not occur to me, ever, that people were good or that a man was capable of change or that the world could be a better place through one’s own taking pleasure in a feeling or a look or a gesture, of receiving another person’s love or kindness. Nothing was affirmative, the term “generosity of spirit” applied to nothing, was a cliche, was some kind of bad joke. Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire- meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead. Fear, recrimination, innocence, sympathy, guilt, waste, failure, grief, were things, emotions, that no one really felt anymore. Reflection is useless, the world is senseless. Evil is its only permanence. God is not alive. Love cannot be trusted. Surface, surface, surface, was all that anyone found meaning in…this was civilization as I saw it, colossal and jagged…Or Mac the Knife?>POLLY in tears: Those poor people, [murdered] all for a few sticks of furniture.>MAC: And what furniture! Junk! You have a perfect right to be angry. A rosewood harpsichord along with a renaissance sofa. That’s unforgivable. What about a table?https://youtube.com/watch?v=8euLM67QJG4
>>25264854faggoty shitexpected for /lit/
>>25264854I read the Brecht novel. I liked the concept of a jack-the-ripper-cum-successful-slop-shop-entrepreneur. Rough and monotonous it ended up, though it had some gems here and there.
>>25265714I haven't read it. I enjoyed reading the play and I liked the music though