Roll-up cigarettes as a sublimation of darts

From: Gooch McCracken
Category: Amis's Works
Date: 6/26/99
Time: 4:06:49 PM
Remote Name: 129.219.247.97

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Click that link for Andrew Martin's disquisition on the personality of roll-your-own smokers. He refrains from positing Julie Clinch's theory that cigarette-rolling is a substitute for fecal-eroticism. Andrew Martin says: "the cheapest fags have the poshest names". Which is a fact that also applies to American cigarettes. I used to be a cashier at a gas station/convenience store. And one of the finer ironies of life is the spectacle of some cheap-ass peasant requesting a pack of Viceroy or Sterling or Monarch or Montclair or Cambridge cigarettes. It's a real-life Martin Amisoid inversion. Those cheapadelic brands should have realistic names. Chesterfield Kings should be called Chesterfield Bums.