The Post-Modernity of the above Sandwich is that it has taken a perfectly good idea/concept- the Sandwich- and taken some perfectly good ingredients- cheese, ham, Italian sausage, bread- and it has managed to create something that is everything and nothing: It is not quite a Sandwich, it is not quite a Rubix Cube; it is not food, but neither is it art, and neither is it a joke; it is not beautiful, but neither is it functional; it is a stupid, pointless thing that is neither traditional, nor innovative, that somehow demands the attention, yet it would not matter at all if it did not exist, and it plays no part in the history of Humanity, Art, the Sandwich, nor anything else; it simply hangs in space- meaningless, pointless, yet somehow very real.
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