Dealing With Graffiti

David Coward 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK 550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia The right of David Coward to be identified as the Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise

in existence for an extremely short time in comparison with the age of the relationship between moths and the sun and moon. Many insects use these light sources to navigate by day and night. Because the moon and sun are a long way away, insects have evolved to expect the light from them to strike their eyes in the same place at different times of day or night, enabling them to calculate how to fly in a straight line. When people come along with their portable miniature suns and moons and a moth flies

Rolling with thoughts unknown In great and desperate rings Flutter, still throbbing with life The rising sun devours them Watch them, dazzled skies, Dance in the fires of dawning This is King Louis' orchard These hung men, now heard by the devil Summon new hung men to come While in the skies of spread azure Where a meteor seems to glow The dew dies off in the air A swarm of delighted birds Upon their heads is pecking about This is King Louis' orchard Prince, there is a grove decorated With clusters

posture, which has often been elevated to the level of a myth, and has always been contested, presents itself as an absolute, in spite of its internal contradictions, of the ideological ambiguities it creates, of the difficulty that critics struggle with when they try to identify it objectively, even in spite of postmodernity. It seems to have led several polymorphic lives, even before the 19th century when it grew again as the dominant aesthetic value, so much so that every artistic form which would