On such a view, the despoilment of pristine wilderness is the loss of something intrinsically good.

At the same time a wandering minstrel named W. Dawson found enough encouragement among the starchy old Revolutionary heroes to enable him to publish a Political and Literary Miscellany which he called the Intelligencer. It was on the Western Statesman of Lawrenceburg under Gregg that Augustus Jocelyn, Judge David Laird, Thomas Dowling and C. F. Clarkson caught the typomania and carried the dangerous infection to as many Indiana towns.

[He] couldn't keep from staring at my blacksnake. He'd probably never seen a dick like mine. I couldn't help but stare at his prick too. He had the smallest dick I'd ever seen on any man. […] She went over to Raft and pulled down his underwear, revealing his blacksnake. In front of Bogie, she eased down on her knees, skinned back the foreskin of Raft's penis, and insertd it into her mouth.

The film moves Barker's decaying British urban blightscape to an even grungier Chicago and the Cabrini-Green wasteland.