The glue sniffing is a perfect example of how they weren't just goofy. They were poor kids with no options other than sniffing glue in stairwells and dying of a heroin overdose, or starting a band to escape that nihilistic existence, but even when talking about girls and bananas they never sound anything less than desperate people making desperate music that's still nihilistic under the surface.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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