Minister Quotes in White Spirit
“Because, you know, you can wear national costume, if you like. Your traditional dresses? That would be wonderful. The minister would love to see that.”
Their faces grow wary and apologetic with unsayable things. The room is stiff with a charged awkwardness, with languages I can’t speak.
“No. But we come.”
“Such a positive message,” the minister is saying, “and I understand the community itself had a hand in creating it. Marvellous.”
He’s beckoning to the minister, grinning glancing up at the mural to find a good place to stand in front of. “I’ve noticed those empty solvent tins out by the bins,” he murmurs in passing. “Can you dispose of them somewhere else, where the kids from round here won’t find them and sniff them? Ta.”
Local colour is what he wants. A multicultural coup. Boxes ticked. Oh, here’s our vision alright, I think bitterly, sealed and impervious and safeguarded. And no matter what gets scrawled there, whatever message or denial or contradiction, you can just wipe it away. With white spirit.
Minister Quotes in White Spirit
“Because, you know, you can wear national costume, if you like. Your traditional dresses? That would be wonderful. The minister would love to see that.”
Their faces grow wary and apologetic with unsayable things. The room is stiff with a charged awkwardness, with languages I can’t speak.
“No. But we come.”
“Such a positive message,” the minister is saying, “and I understand the community itself had a hand in creating it. Marvellous.”
He’s beckoning to the minister, grinning glancing up at the mural to find a good place to stand in front of. “I’ve noticed those empty solvent tins out by the bins,” he murmurs in passing. “Can you dispose of them somewhere else, where the kids from round here won’t find them and sniff them? Ta.”
Local colour is what he wants. A multicultural coup. Boxes ticked. Oh, here’s our vision alright, I think bitterly, sealed and impervious and safeguarded. And no matter what gets scrawled there, whatever message or denial or contradiction, you can just wipe it away. With white spirit.
