A potential problem of the book is the authors use of strong language. The first image a reader sees on opening the book is Jim Overbeck with the words 'Fuck You' emblazoned across his chest. This is more than an academic study, it is a rebellious statement. Throughout the book one can feel the intensity of anger...

"I sometimes wish I was fully armoured as God, monstrous with weaponry, wearing the caestus of glinting steel, of punishing enormity, ferocious with ready vengeance: thus I would fleshify every evil in Satan and make his legions incarnate (incarnate as his eyes & genitalia): then I would tear & smash & smite & rip & pound & shred & stomp his head & groin into a bloody cow-pat for ten thousand years: after which, with boots of merciless iron, clawed and white-hot, I would rend & tread his still-feeling carcass into the shithouse floor: finally, I would inflict and force-feed him gigantic psychoses and syphilitic shit - e.g. - academics & politicians & murderers & rapists & thieves & c."

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