That perverse thought seems to have inspired a recent series by another photography great, Lee Friedlander.
Perish such a perverse thought, but might we squelch this niceness before our favorite fiend turns into Mary Poppins?
"Some kind of Surrealist exercise meant to inspire me, but also prevent me from thinking the perverse, looping thoughts that come unbidden: I am hideous.
At times, Staley's value system seems perverse: the raw thought being prized over the polished expression.
This perverse line of thought is largely responsible for a society where the income gap continues to widen, where the middle-class, a term that has been AWOL from the Republican discourse, and seemingly removed from the Republican dictionary altogether at this juncture, continues to shrink under the weight of wrong-headed and senseless economic and fiscal priorities.
At special subject and postgraduate level and in academic seminars, he revelled in taking up what could seem perverse arguments to provoke thought and often to clarify his own thinking.
I have been talking of the imp of the perverse; the perilous and taboo thoughts that we may experience, sometimes with great frequency.
And Bill Shore, executive director of Share Our Strength, which works to fight hunger and poverty, echoes those thoughts: "In a perverse way prosperity hides poverty," he says.
His final decision is unexpected, sad and perverse, but still feels utterly apt; it's a thought-provoking conclusion to this subtle, clever and immensely enjoyable novel.
Irenaeus handled Gnostic origins by demonstrating that the predecessors of contemporary Valentinians were themselves wrong and perverse; on the principle of a "genetic" continuity in thought, the errors of the parents are then passed to their offspring (chapter 2).
