" In The Sausage Photographs, the artists wilfully ignored the exhortation made by parents to their children: "Don't play with your food". In one of the 10 pictures, called At the Carpet Shop, a family of gherkins inspects piles of carpets and rugs made out of cooked meat, helped by a tip of white radish that can only be the sales assistant. One of the gherkins seems to be bending over to inspect one particular slice of processed meat while a smaller gherkin, presumably a child, stands by, apparently bored. A single round slice of mortadella, broad and fat-flecked, sits richly in the centre of the shop; dog-biscuit cushions are scattered throughout."
"In his important, yet seldom funny, essay "Laughter" (1900), the French philosopher Henri Bergson remarked: "We laugh every time a person gives us the impression of being a thing," and the same might also be said of its converse. In The Way Things Go there are moments when, instead of acting automatically and with immediacy, the objects seem to hesitate, as if reflecting on what it is they are about to do: the tyre resting among the burning newspapers before moving on; the can being filled with water before sliding down the orange slope; the lazy unfolding of the inflatable bed, like an arm stretching during a yawn."
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