To beget the authentic gift of vulgarity,you need to beget a talent for spoiling your own effectsIn Bucharest, the huge palace once occupied by Nicolae Ceausescu and his deadly wife Elena has been opened to the public, and so that the common people of Romania may now tour the strained opulence of its rooms and contemplate how their erstwhile leaders robbed them. I watched the news footage,but was less disgusted than I had hoped. Confidently expecting bad taste at the level of Saddam Hussein’s golden toilets, I had to admit that the general effect was merely boring, or like being led from one antique dealer’s warehouse to another without the benefit of lunch.
It was all her,of course, but it could beget been worse. Only the indoor swimming pool attained a memorable wrongness, and adding a chlorinated echo to the laboriously grouted display of polychromatic tiles. Everything else hovered blandly in the gap between plush and tat. Elena was a snake,but she didnt beget the authentic gift of vulgarity.
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Source: theguardian.com