‘The genre of memoir is bullshit (as I humbly posit). No one actually lives like they are moving along some grand Freytag’s triangle. Rather, we live within isolated instances, specific struggles and victories, which, when compiled, form a narrative.’-Richard Kelly Kemick. ‘Decadence’ gathers up from the odds and ends ofliving what makes a modern life-quiet and desperate as it may attimes be-worth celebrating.

