“Detective Sergeant Anthony Hulment served P-Orridge with the first summons on 17 January 1976. The court case was originally set for 23 February at Highburry Corner Magistrates Court, but because P-Orridge was performing in Milan at this time, it was re-arranged to 5 April. The delay did nothing to help P-Orridge’s case though, because on 22 February he was asked to make another statement, this time to identify three more ‘indecent’ postcards, one of which carried a reproduction of the painting ‘Time Transfixed’ (1939) by the Belgian Surrealist René Magritte. P-Orridge made manifest the hidden sexual symbolism of the painting—of a train (penis) exiting a fireplace (vagina)—by the addition of a copulating couple cut from a pornographic magazine. Text from a similar source was collaged on to the verso: “Suddenly her legs began to thresh the air and her fingernails bit deep into my shoulders… Only when I finally softened up did we lie breathless, knowing that our first adulterous fuck had been a tremendous success.” P-Orridge addressed the card to Ted Glass, a fictituous artist (who incidentally, also appears in ‘Contemporary Artists’ complete with bogus biographical information and an improbable personal stament).” — Source : ‘Wreckers of Civilisation: The Story of COUM Transmissions & Throbbing Gristle’, edited by Simon Ford, p.6.11, Black Dog Publishing Limited, 1999.