Another bore carries around a suitcase full of trophies and medals, cups and ribbons: "Now this I won for the Most Ingenious Sex Device Contest in Yokohama. (Hold him, he's desperate.) The Emperor gave it to me himself and there were tears in his eyes, and the runners-up all castrated theirselves with hara-kiri knives. And I won this ribbon in a Degradation Contest at the Tehran meeting of Junkies Anonymous."................................................. ..................WILLIAM S BURROUGHS, Naked Lunch....................................................... ....................[readers note: I do not desire to know where the ribbbons and cups have been.]...................................................... .......................See also: Franz Kafka, Hunter S Thompson, Daniel Headrick, Chaim Potok, Roald Dahl, Eric Arthur Blair (Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), especially)