Resemblance

What do Henry Miller, James Joyce, Earnest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Sigmund Freud, Andrea Dworkin, the comte de Sade, the operas of Alban Berg, John Stoltenberg, William Burroughs, Erica Jong (I think), and George W. bush all have in common?  The quality of nastiness, and in most of them an obsession with the fact--and the stink--of shit.  Surprisingly many of them, says Dan Savage of the surprisingly many who write in to tell him about it, are coprophages, and they all think it's cute.  Check.  Actually, there is some other nastiness about Lulu and Wozzeck, but I think it's more of gratuitous violence, or child-murder, or some such thing--a difference, I might say, without a distinktion.