Chopin's Consumption

Achievements of inconceivable greatness and beauty are massacred every day in their own name, their desirability exploited not to inspire admiration but to feed a force of possessive greed. They are defiled by this desire, which sees the mindless consumer chewing gum and grinning inanely whilst sitting alongside the consumptive Chopin for a photo opportunity. Chopin’s weak, rattling cough is met with a clumsy slap on the back by the inhabitant of five star hotels who has driven him to his damp and draughty garret.