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That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.

— Irvine Welsh The Acid House (1994)

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Darren and Brian explaining their own notions of anarchy to Avril.

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