Encyclopaedias and dictionaries are often boring, of no help when it comes to secretly filling train carriages with subversive balloons and they rarely manage to offend everyone. Lexicographers assume that language is a big machine that you need an instruction manual to use, rather than a river of silvery ribbons that bursts out of your astonished mouth, or a spectacular instant tree that grows between people in collective surrender to something bigger than the both of us, or a slow lightning strike that pins you, howling with delight, to the sky, or some peculiar paradoxical state halfway between hard cold crystal- line structures driving us to a revolutionary, world-changing point, and mad hot erupting flowers of aimless joy. People who read dictionaries rarely snort soup out their nostrils in outrage, or nod with serene recognition at far distant and long estranged ideas suddenly flung together as mysterious friends, or feel gently inspired to fall in love with waiting forever, or seriously consider the only solution to heartbreak there is or possibly could be, or leave work to master horsemanship, or leave school to get educated, or up and seize their wives about the middle, ready to embark on a week-long reality-cracking godgasm, or stroll whistling into the void.The Apocalypedia is, therefore, a scurrilous, lyrical, lunatic and friendly countercultural A-Z that satirizes modern society through an original and revolutionary collection of flash-essays and comic vignettes. It presents an apocalyptically optimistic and deeply original way of understanding human nature and of living in a civilization that is in rapid and terminal decline. Looking at a combination of common value-charged words and new words coined to give voice to the often overlooked beauties and horrors of everyday experience, The Apocalypedia is a comic revelation of the kaleidoscopic twists and turns that ordinary consciousness makes throughout the day. A delightful gift book for the radically-inclined, the romantically baffled, the psychologically broken, the fledgling creative genius, the reckless, the sensitive and the actually dying, the book is an entertaining and uncompromising satire of modern culture.**About the AuthorDarren Allen is an author, artist, activist, philosopher and media-botherer. He has travelled widely, living in Japan, Spain, Russia, the Middle East and England, working as a technical author, English teacher, textbook designer, horse-groom, illicit priest and seller of shrunken heads; although he prefers to rely on exquisite good-fortune over paid work.

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The 40 Most Influential Christians . . . Who Shaped What We Believe Today

Forty most influential Christians who shaped what we believe today

Aaron, Daryl

Daryl Aaron

Bethany House Publishers

UIT Cambridge Ltd

Resurgence Books

Bethany Backyard

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota, 2013

United States, United States of America

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-302).

The Apocalypedia is a countercultural A-Z that pokes fun at modern society, through a friendly but deeply revolutionary collection of flash-essays and comic vignettes, presenting an apocalyptically optimistic way of understanding and living in a civilisation that is in rapid and terminal decline. Looking at a combination of common value-charged words and new words invented as observations of common experience, it is a comic revelation of the lunatic twists and turns that ordinary consciousness makes throughout the day. A delightful gift book for the radically-minded, the book is an entertaining satire of modern culture, looking at everything from romantic relationships, to psychology, religion, language, history and more

"Brief accessible accounts of the people who significantly formed the core beliefs of the Christian faith"-- Provided by publisher

2021-10-23