"Graffiti:
Selected Scrawls From Bathroom Walls"
collected by Robert Reisner
Parallax Publishing, 1967
To take a line from a Simon and
Garfunkel song, the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls...and
bathroom stalls, and stairwells, and just about any other public place.
The graffiti collected covers a vast range of topics: political, philosophical,
drugs, humorous, poetic, and, of course, sexual. This book, and the graffiti
it uses, is not only a commentary on the late 60's, but it also speaks
of the eternal problems of man. Graffiti has always existed, from the walls
of the Roman Coliseum to the urban subway car. Graffiti lands somewhere
between lower-class ramblings and fertile ground for pop psychology. You
can look and quickly forget, or spend time deconstructing the voice and
meanings behind the scribbles. However people look at it, they are undeniably
fascinated. These bits of wit and wisdom work perfectly in any age, especially
in today's sound bite savvy era, because it's quick, raw, and to the point.
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