University of Virginia Library

Cheap Toilet Paper

One is reminded of cheap, tinted
toilet paper which decays into
nothing, leaving indefinitely a
residue of poisonous dye, bereft of
substance, and useful only for
contamination and destruction.

The substance of The System,
questionable in the first place, but
at least coherent, has long since
vanished. What lingers is a Mad Dog
Tradition that admits of neither
mercy nor integrity.

This point is essential because
people ARE being purged,
academic careers ARE being
crippled, reputations ARE being
destroyed in a puerile reaction to
those whose taste precludes their
wallowing in the University's
present moral dung heap.