Barcelonian bathos

(a dip into the rhetorical organization of texts and into figurative language, but getting its raw material from gay porn and so ut’s going to be entirely unsuitable for kids and the sexually modest) In the opening of Raging Stallion’s 2024 porn flick Tourist Attractions (scenes from the stream of visitors to Beau Butler’s (fantasy) rental house in Barcelona), BB explains the pleasures of the city: I like to take in everything Barcelona has to offer: art, culture, food, cock — you know, the basics. Thus launching this seaside D&A S&F circus with a stroke of comic bathos. From the high level of art and culture, dropping to the artful and cultivated satisfaction of an animal need and then plunging to what we think of as raw vulgar pleasure. BB starts a sentence with a glancing allusion to La Sagrada Familia and ends with a tribute to taking dick. To which we offer a round of gratified cries of appreciation — as, indeed, would be occasioned by Gaudí’s astounding church, by a spread of…