Metaphor is embodied in language.
Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises