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The site of the Court of Alcinous, a degenerate parody of Homeric hospitality, where thieves, drunks, and minor aristocrats swap tall tales, narcotics and colonic irrigation.
While not named directly, Bedminster's traditional associations of working-class conviviality are here parodied through mythic analogy. As "the site of the Court of Alcinous”, it becomes a Bristolian Ithaca - where the down-and-out swap colonic parables in lieu of Homeric verse. Craven's rendering ties classical pastiche to the urban bacchanalia of South Bristol.
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