Original artwork, not a still
Neverwhere ‧ 1996
Rubbish! screamed a fat, elderly woman, in Richard's ear, as he passed her malodorous stall. "Junk!" she continued. "Garbage! Trash! Offal! Debris! Come and get it! Nothing whole or undamaged! Crap, tripe and useless piles of shit. You know you want it."
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
A stallholder bellows that her wares are junk, then keeps piling insults onto her own goods. The absurd sales pitch sells rubbish by calling it rubbish. It's funny because blunt honesty collides with hard-sell hustle, and she insists you want it anyway.
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