Ian Martin edited the memorable quotes of Pop-splat Saturday, June 12, 2010.
- Added a quotation: “This Book is dedicated to THE YOUTH in the hope that they will reject the crappy values of their parents.”
- Added a quotation: “Matt was enrolled at the best of schools. It was one of those museum institutions that should have died out as a despicable anachronism once the sun had set on the British Empire. It was based on the English Public School model, and was steeped in all sorts of bizarre and archaic traditions that one would have thought had no place in the 20th century, let alone the 21st. But the wealthy elite who prosper at the expense of the stinking masses seem determined to have their offspring educated in just such old-fashioned bastions of privilege.”
- Added a quotation: ““You see, darling,” she said, “it’s most important not to appearweak in any way.” “Like how?” Matt wanted to know. “Well, for example, they’ll offer you a cigarette and closely watch your response. If you refuse, or start coughing and spluttering, or don’t know how to inhale, you’ll be an object of ridicule. I’m afraid they’ll see it as a chink in your armour, my dear. Then they’ll look for other ways to test you and before you know it you’ll be a laughing stock and fair game for the bullies.””Trudy, Matt's mother
- Added a quotation: “His feelings for his mother were more complex. He knew she was a typical rich bitch, through and through – loud, domineering, incredibly rude to domestic staff and shop assistants, dishonest in word and deed, foul-mouthed, lazy, quick to complain, callous, sexually promiscuous, badly educated, opinionated, bigoted, pompous, pretentious and, above all, supercilious. In short: a real Constantia matron.”
- Added a quotation: ““But there’s another reason why we find them so fucking obscene; a psychological reason. When we see a rat and shudder in revulsion it’s partly a feeling of disgust for ourselves. Our base impulses, our revolting habits, our treacherous nature, our murderous inclinations, and our systematic degradation of everything we touch. The rat is our nemesis: a reproach and a reminder of how vile we really are.””
- Added a quotation: “It wasn’t far from the highway, but it felt like the hinterland of darkest Africa. The potholed track led into a jungle of shacks and took a turn. He was immediately engulfed by walls of wood, iron, cardboard and plastic. Most of the hovels were closed up, the residents away at work or school, or off foraging for firewood, or scavenging for bits of rubbish that might be of some use, or out and about breaking into houses and stealing washing from clotheslines, or off to town to do a little shoplifting and begging. He saw a woman, some small children in rags, an old man. A skinny dog barked a warning: if he stopped it would piss on at least one of his wheels. Some chickens; a goat. Everywhere the smell of human excrement.”
- Added a quotation: “We all know what culture is, don’t we? Anyway, the culture Matt was familiar with was largely worthless culture of the West, heavily loaded with influences from the US of A. Some call it postmodern culture, or post-postmodern culture. Whatever. The main feature of this culture is its worthlessness.”
- Added a quotation: “Anorexic Prostitute with Baboon Foetus. All this pseudo aesthetic refinement and sensitivity. When just beneath the surface they were gross materialists. It was a con, this display of Art objects. They weren’t interested in the art at all. Money and status – that’s what it was about. Like that bloody William Kentridge on the wall over there. How many hundred thousand had they paid? Christ! Klipdrift and Chocolate Kotched on Canvas.”
- Added a quotation: “Matt peeped into the room. Claude was in his chair behind the desk where he’d been told to sit. The burglar stood facing him, his back to the door. He was examining one of Claude’s guns prior to firing it. The thieving black bastard. Dormant hatred erupted in him. Coal black, actually. Ebony black. Must be an Angolan, or Congolese, or something. Xenophobia and righteous indignation were injected into the engine of rage. These foreign black bastards were stealing and raping right here in Constantia under the very noses of the black bastards whose birthright it was to steal from the white trash and rape the white bitches.”
- Added a quotation: “She did most of the things her friends did. She went to the parties, and danced, and popped pills, and drank vodka and cream soda, and even sucked a cock or two. But that was it.”
- Added a quotation: ““Members of the Foundation are encouraged to take a pledge,” he said. “It goes like this: ‘I vow to use every opportunity that comes my way to defecate on the altar of religious conviction, and wipe my arse on the flag of national pride.’ Offensive, hey?””
- Added a quotation: ““Jesus, Ed,” he said, “you’re painting a horribly bleak picture. No wonder you say we’ve been robbed of a future. I suppose we can only blame human nature for this. I mean, if we’re atheists we can’t even blame God or the Devil.” “No,” said Ed, grinning. “But we can blame previous generations; especially our parents’ generation.” A cold, ruthless look came into his eyes. “We might be rather fond of Mummy and Daddy, but they’ve got a lot to answer for. They’ve been very greedy and selfish. They’ve recklessly and negligently gone and fucked up their children’s future. Let’s just hope they don’t expect us to pamper them in their old age. No, I’m afraid we’re going to have to euthanize whole multitudes of them in order to gain some breathing space.””
- Added a quotation: ““Why did you have to kill them like that?” she asked. “The monkeys?” He was taken aback. He’d already forgotten about the monkeys. But why had he killed them? “They were messing up the car,” he said, knowing that this didn’t in any way explain his behaviour. What the hell. It was of no consequence and he felt no remorse. These monkeys were vermin, anyway, just like humans. In a million years time they would have evolved into some abominable species to take the place of humans, who’d be long extinct. Then they too would go about fucking up the planet.”
- Added a quotation: “One of them broke open the door, which was unnecessary because it wasn’t locked. They entered the shop and immediately began messing up the crime scene by doing things they’d been specifically trained not to do. Like moving the bodies and handling the murder weapons and leaving their sweaty fingerprints on everything.”
- Added a quotation: “When Matthew Dreyer started life as a baby he was one of those mewling and puking types: somewhat sickly and runtish. In fact, during one of their frequent, verbally abusive altercations, his father Bruce had suggested to his mother Trudy that the infant was suffering from foetal alcohol syndrome.”
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