Wit & Attitude Quote by Eddie Campbell

The detail that lands first is the bureaucratic chill of “make an appointment,” a phrase that belongs to dentists and visa offices, not to a human encounter. Eddie Campbell frames access to “her” as regulated, rationed, and faintly absurd - intimacy processed through scheduling. It’s a small, almost throwaway observation that skewers a bigger modern impulse: to turn people, especially women elevated into icons, into destinations with office hours.

Then the line swerves: “But it was just a crazy spectacle.” That “but” is the puncture. Whatever reverence the appointment implies gets deflated by the reality of the scene: not communion, not awe, but a crowd-management operation. “People filing past” is the language of museums, funerals, and bureaucratic queues - bodies moving in a controlled stream, individuality stripped out by procedure. Campbell’s artist’s eye is doing what comics often do best: locating the truth in staging, in how the world arranges itself around an image.

The subtext is less about her than about us. The appointment suggests desire for proximity; the spectacle reveals the hollowed-out mechanics of that desire once it becomes public. You can hear Campbell’s skepticism toward celebrity culture or institutionalized art-world veneration: access is promised, but only as a timed, frictionless pass-by. What’s sold as presence becomes choreography. You don’t meet her. You participate in the line.