He was someone whose life had been dirtied forever because of what his own people were doing.
This necessitated the removal of all the van's contents – which had been dirtied up for artistic reasons – to be "deep-cleaned, and then made filthy again".
A far-right group calling itself "Sauvons Calais!" or "Let's Save Calais!" held a demonstration last week, waving a banner proclaiming that the town had been "dirtied" by immigration.
What it had was dirty magic – the slurred, sex-drunk vocal, those shambolic handclaps, the whole glorious unmade bed".
"It might have been dirty, but it was vibrant.
"This process has been dirty for the people of Ontario".
It may not have been dirty, but it was my little secret.
The evidence — technical and anecdotal — of the last decade suggests that the whole sport has been dirty for a generation, if not always.
Yes, it would have been very hot (although it's a dry heat) and it would, in places, have been dirty and ultra-chaotic, but it would also have been friendly and welcoming.
The streets around Fourth Avenue, though, have been dirty for 40 years, and its graciousness resides in going on, in managing to get along and in not giving in to despair, despair being the route along which the gates are always open.
