Spero recycled the anguished outpourings by the poet Antonin Artaud: terrified recollections of electric shock therapy, crazed railings against God and the universe, delirious streams of obscene "fecal poetry".
The fascination that inspired Warhol's postage-stamp portraiture and Elton John's outpourings retains its grip.
When it comes to our online outpourings, forgetfulness is equally impossible.
Sadly, reports of Mandela's death the following December were true, and were greeted with outpourings of grief across the world.
There have already been outpourings of joy on the streets of Conakry because of the football – and a tragedy.
The sulphurous outpourings of this little magma factory thrusting its head above the mid-Atlantic ridge make the rotten eggs thrown at many an English comic at the Glasgow Empire seem positively benign.
All of which raises the question: why bother when Google, Amazon, Apple and others are putting civilisation's creative outpourings online as fast as their editing, scanning and recording machines can cope?
If public sentiment had to be judged by the outpourings on the country's numerous Internet bulletin boards, it would appear alarmingly chauvinistic and bellicose.
