They made their way through the “edutitaL” exhibit, with Roger reading the artist’s description from the book as Laurie looked at each artwork.

“What about the empty syringes floating in a bathtub full of urine?” Laurie said.

Roger flipped to the proper page in the exhibit guide. “An indictment of the totalitarianism inherent in unregulated commercial broadcasting.”

“The pile of dead flies on an old record covered in plastic wrap?”

“An attempt to capture the zeitgeist of a morally bankrupt age in its most luxurious form.” Roger said. “Based on a true story.”

Laurie walked to the next one. “The mounted cat skeleton stuffed with gummy worms?”

“Meta-commentary on the failure of the ‘postmodern’ in the face of intercontinental commercialism,” Roger said. “Pretty straightforward, really.”