Rants and Incendiary Tracts
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Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead. The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity. He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence. No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man. Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. --Proverbs of Hell () by William Blake "The rants in this collection are organized chronologically. This arrangement may at first appear unhelpful or unimaginative, but rants are unruly beasts, not easily pigeonholed." --Rants and Incendiary Tracts (1989) by Bob Black and Adam Parfrey |
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Rants and Incendiary Tracts: Voices of Desperate Illumination 1558-Present (1989) is a book edited by Bob Black and Adam Parfrey. It is an anthology of 56 pieces of invective in the style of An Anthology of Invective and Abuse (1929) by Hugh Kingsmill.
It was co-published, as a 240 page paperback, by Amok Books and Loompanics.
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The rants in this collection are organized chronologically. This arrangement may at first appear unhelpful or unimaginative, but rants are unruly beasts, not easily pigeonholed. Several loose categories were considered: “fuck you” rants; guerrilla rants; social darwinist rants; ethical rants; ants-in-the-pants rants; folk science rants; arty rants; leave-me/us- alone rants. But no matter how all-inclusive we made each category, the rants mewled and puked and sprawled across several categories simultaneously or else demanded their own. Although this is a historical anthology, the chronological arrangement ironically betrays a certain timeless quality: man-unkind has been ranting about the same concerns for a half of a millennium.
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Many of the rants are taken from books long out of print; a few are originals written especially for this edition; and some are available in their entirety from Loompanics and Amok: titles and ordering information for these are provided in the back of the book.
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