Titans of Transgression: Incendiary Interviews with Eleven Ultra-Icons of Über-Extremity, ed. Dr Miriam B. Stimbers and Dr Samuel P. Salatta (TransVisceral Books, forthcoming)
Here’s an exclusive extract from this soon-to-be-published compendium of core counter-culturalicity. We join a Titan of Transgression and his incendiary interviewer as they engage issues around the unsavoury rumours that once circulated about the aforementioned Titan of Transgression…
READERS’ ADVISORY: Interview extract contains strong language and disturbing adult themes. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK.
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Stefan Jaworzyn: Well, yeah, they hurt. I have to be honest. They did hurt. I tried to put a brave face on it, you know, saying that the people spreading them were a bunch of fucking losers, blah-blah. Which was true. I mean, they were fucking losers. But deep down, yeah, the rumours hurt. There was one I remember… Fuck. [stares down at table]
Norman Nekrophile: Stefan?
Stefan Jaworzyn: [buries face in hands]
Norman Nekrophile: Are you okay?
Stefan Jaworzyn:
Norman Nekrophile: Stefan? Are you okay?
Stefan Jaworzyn: [exhales loudly and looks up] Yeah. Yeah. I think so.
Norman Nekrophile: You were saying about one rumour.
Stefan Jaworzyn: Yeah. There was one that said… Jesus.
Norman Nekrophile:
Stefan Jaworzyn: [exhales loudly]
Norman Nekrophile: If you don’t want to go there, buddy, we’ll leave it.
Stefan Jaworzyn: No, it’s fine. I’ll go there. There was one rumour that said I was… that I was… Jesus.
Norman Nekrophile: Yes? That you were?
Stefan Jaworzyn: [whispering] A Cockney Red.
Norman Nekrophile:
Stefan Jaworzyn:
Norman Nekrophile: Jesus.
Stefan Jaworzyn: Yeah.
Norman Nekrophile: I’m lost for words.
Stefan Jaworzyn: Yeah.
Norman Nekrophile: I mean, I’d heard myself that you were supposed to run, well, forgive me, with the Yids.
Stefan Jaworzyn: And with the Gooners.
Norman Nekrophile: Yeah, that too. With the Gooners and the Yids. Which is bad enough, don’t get me wrong. But you being a… Fuck. I can’t even bring myself to say it. That was low, buddy. That was low.
Stefan Jaworzyn: Yeah. Very low. But it was the mentality of the people we’re dealing with here.
Norman Nekrophile: And I assume you did deal with whoever-it-was? I mean, once you’d tracked down the source of that particular rumour?
Stefan Jaworzyn: [chuckling drily] Let’s not go there, Norm.
Norman Nekrophile: You’re pleading the Fifth?
Stefan Jaworzyn: Like a motherfucker.
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Interview extract © Stefan Jaworzyn / Norman Nekrophile / TransVisceral Books 2017
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