Williams has said: "The title was unnecessary, but it served to underline or highlight the cruel set of relations set in place by the managers of culture".
I think it adds to the terror of the novel that, after a certain point, there is no escape from the facts, only a frightening possibility that above the demands of justice stands a still crueller set of demands, called duty.
It is a cruel, vicious circle.
What matters is the systematic and cruel sets of conditions we 'good people' continue to allow to exist that willfully marginalize whole segments of the black community for life.
A cruel myth has set throngs of emigrants fleeing from their weary inland lives toward the Atlantic coast.
It's a cruel thing to set off explosions in a public place, always.
After all, what's a more surefire way of getting laid than spending all night talking about the time you were the victim of a cruel meme-prank set up by an online community of people you'll never meet?
A slim, cheerfully cruel novel, set in an all-night pancake house where a group of underachieving psychoanalysts (none of them with medical degrees) maunder at length.
It was one of many satires inspired by current Dutch prints, but the way in which Hogarth brought iconic city buildings together - the Guildhall, the Exchange, the Monument, St Paul's and the poorhouse - transformed London into a stage, the setting for a cruel drama of power.
We first meet Goodman's Frank in a Grecian bathhouse, blubber spilling out from beneath his robes as he barks a cruel economic philosophy that, when you set aside all the profanity, actually makes a great deal of sense.
