Word: rage
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...somewhere else quick. When the wrong turns of Dave's life - the bad marriage, the strange and estranged son, the failed hair transplant - start piling up, the Knowledge can do nothing to keep his wheels on the road. Descending into insanity, Dave empties all his warped, dyspeptic rage into a hate-filled memoir that he buries in his ex-wife's garden. Several centuries on, after a great flood has reduced England to an archipelago and returned society to a pretaxi - indeed, premedieval - state, Dave's book is unearthed and becomes a kind of New Knowledge, the founding text...
...that is lovely news for future students of 21st century literature. And yet: there's still no writer under 40 who makes you want to stand up in a crowded theater and shout, That right there is the voice of this generation, that is the yearning and the rage of the contemporary, embodied in some poor sad sack of a character who's mad as hell and just can't get no satisfaction. Every once in a while a novel comes along that makes everything else feel dated, that feels as current as tomorrow's e-mail, that gives readers...
There are a lot of ways to study a painting, and one of the best is to get to know the painter. The splash or splatter of color makes a lot more sense when you understand the rage or whimsy or heart behind it. The songwriter, similarly, can lay bare the song, the poet the poem, the builder the building...
...Game and fish eluded them, and they were reduced to searching, often in vain, for Brazil nuts, hearts of palm and the sweet, white sap of milk trees. One of the porters, roundly despised for his laziness and violent temper, had begun to steal food. Out of desperation and rage, he eventually murdered another man on the expedition...
...number of the farm's lawyers on their arms, and are ready to resist eviction by the sheriff's office, which conducts nightly reconnaissance in circling helicopters. Farmers cook dinner for the protestors, massagers massage them and famous people play music for them - tonight it's the guy from Rage Against the Machine, shiatsu and some delicious homemade soy-milk hot chocolate. During the day, there are pop-ins from celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Willie Nelson, Martin Sheen, Danny Glover, Laura Dern, Ben Harper, Ralph Nader and, proving that casting directors are underpaid, the mom from Dharma & Greg...