ACCIDENTS IN LANGUAGE. Yesterday, at Printed Matters opening for Maurizio Cattelan. The usual chatter, like there is some interest he takes in his subjects that seems...the usual looks of disgust of elitism unbound from some of the staff toward me, which, when caught, turn into the fear of the loss of a sale, and the usual display of material with titles such as retard squad. I just kept on thinking how Kloisterman and Hodgman use the term, how there is really no word defining sadistic and brutalizing behavior other than terms inplying mental disability, such as psycho, retard, cretin, and how safe that was, as if a person with a clean bill of mental health couldn't gut another, and more, on purpose. So I mentioned how the term was ambiguous to the man at the register, who in tone of voice implied I wasn't on the scene. Then I said, I guess not, since by purchasing a copy of Charley I was only there to sustain his rent habit, and left.