Teeth ’N’ Smiles

Text of the day: “I knew a guy, played in a band. They were loud, they were very loud. What I mean by loud is: they made Pink Floyd sound like a Mozart quintet. I said to him, why the hell don’t you wear muffs? In eighteen months you’re going to be stone deaf. He said: that’s why we play so loud. The louder we play, the sooner we won’t be able to hear. I can see us all. Rolling down the highway into middle age. Complacency. Prurience. Sadism. Despair.” (Arthur in David Hare’s Teeth ’N’ Smiles)

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