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Bell clanging. Crowd voices and movement. Slubgrip\u2019s voice is heard above the din. <\/span><\/p>\nCome to order! Come to order! Worms! Slimetoads! Grubs and Slugs, come to order!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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This is Popular Culture 101. If you are meant to be in this class, then do me the courtesy of sitting down and shutting up. Now then, that\u2019s better. Nothing worse than starting off the day with your interminable grunting, squeaking and popping.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s that? No, this is not Psychology and Psychosis taught by Dr. Froth. That\u2019s a third-level course\u2014far above you. You may be confusing that course with Psychiatrists and Psychopaths. Professor Shrank teaches that next door. Off you go.<\/p>\n
You are no doubt feeling gratified that you have not only moved up from paramecium, but progressed on to larva, and now you have graduated to the maggot class. However, remember that you are still worms, and you have an awful lot to learn, and much to suffer, before you can hope to move up to the next level. Remember fish bait, my dear fellows. Remember fish bait.<\/p>\n
Grimwort you fat toad, do you have the attendance rosters ready? Well, get on with it\u2014and stop sticking your tongue out like that. You know how it annoys me! Class, meet Grimwort, Associate Professor and my general dogsbody. Grimwort has been longing to be made a full professor for years, but he doesn\u2019t really have what it takes, do you, Grimwort?<\/p>\n
Allow me to introduce myself. I am Professor Slubgrip and this is Popular Culture 101, or as it is sometimes called, \u201cPop Cult.\u201d As you have moved from the larva class, you will have no doubt mastered the simpler levels of temptation. Professor Crapulous will have taken you through the basic dimensions of rage and violence, while Dr. Strangle\u2019s sessions on lust and perversion will, no doubt, have tickled your disgusting adolescent imaginations. I hope you will remember Tepshank\u2019s classic lectures on sloth and despair, not forgetting Dr. Snout\u2019s lessons on gluttony, drunkenness and addictions.<\/p>\n
All that is behind you now, my dear flukes. If you have got this far, then you have passed the exams and shown at least a basic understanding of the foundations of the art of tempting. Those of you who have been at all observant will see that our class begins on the day the Enemy calls \u201cAsh Wednesday.\u201d \u201cAsh Wednesday\u201d they call it! I\u2019ll show the miserable creatures ashes\u2014but not before they have some flames first\u2026.but there I\u2019m getting off track again. Let me see\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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