Eight years ago or so, the alternative paper I was working for sent me out to review a couple of folk-noise-psych-indie-beardie-weirdie bands. I had a dreadful night. The bands were bad enough — “fumbling,” I scratched in my notebook, “infantile” — but what really did me in was the audience. Instead of baying for the blood of these lightweights, as in the Darwinian days of old, the gathered young people — behatted, bebearded, besmiling — obliged them with patters of validating applause.

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They produce hypocorrect forms in an effort to speak nonstandard black English.

Incest is a taboo subject in most soap operas.