Introduction : The Midden Age -- The beginning. Old farts ; For the edification of copious shitters and costive maidens whose hours at Siege should be profitably employed ; "Sometimes I sits and thinks; sometimes I just sits" ; Hard lessons ; Logic 101 ; The music album [or] musical bum ; Butts and instruments : nature versus art ; The musical universe ; Canticus canticorum [song of songs] ; Broken air ; The nose knows ; I/Thou ; One flesh ; Pneuma ; A short excursus on wind ; Till death us do part ; Inspiration ; Stuck in the lavatory ; "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly ..." ; Farting at the devil ; Filthy lucre ; Shitting ducats ; Duck-rabbit, Face-bottom -- In between. In the beginning was the word ; The silver-tongued butt ; The grammar of farts ; Potent words ; Legitimate etymology ; Rebuilding babel ; Bastard laughter ; Better out than in ; Spend a penny, save a penny ; Flatus of the voice -- Die afterwissenschaft (end-knowledge, pseudo-science, butthole-scholarship). The mystery of Roland ; Fartprints of Roland ; The color of the balloon
Summary
This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-236) and index
