shithole

Isn't it enough I sit in this shithole week after week?— wanting to go home and knowing there's not a damn thing to go home to?

God is pulling me up and up and away from this shithole of a life, and as I get pulled up through the water I think, Mum and Dad, I'll miss you.

Perhaps Derrida is recalling Rembrandt's drawing Abraham's Sacrifice. If this is the work of art, why "tear it to pieces" (dechirer) and ram it down the shithole? Is Abraham, father of the Jewish faith, a shit, perhaps the shit that the System proper must flush away?

"You know," he said at last, "I wish you'd just look how that little dog's shithole opens up every time he barks."

. "What a sorry-looking son-of-a-bitch," said one of the officers. "We aren't going to win this war with shitholes like this out there."