“Written in red their protest stands,
For the Gods of the World to see”
"Written-In-Red" de Cleyre's last poem, dedicated "To Our Living Dead in Mexico's Struggle"; first lines.
Context: Written in red their protest stands,
For the Gods of the World to see;
On the dooming wall their bodiless hands
have blazoned "Upharsin," and flaring brands
Illumine the message: "Seize the lands!
Open the prisons and make men free!"
Flame out the living words of the dead
Written-in-red.
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The Darkness That Comes Before (2004)
Responding to a MK Tibi-proposed bill recognising Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state
Israel national news http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/229567#.U5gRtvldXs9, 16 January 2012
“I stand forth to challenge the wisdom of the world; to interrogate the "laws" of man and of "God"!”
Book I, Section I
The Satanic Bible (1969)
Context: In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to the West I beckon. To the North and to the South I show a sign proclaiming: Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong!
Open your eyes that you may see, Oh men of mildewed minds, and listen to me ye bewildered millions!
For I stand forth to challenge the wisdom of the world; to interrogate the "laws" of man and of "God"!
I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.
Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith "thou shalt" to me is my mortal foe!
I dip my forefinger in the watery blood of your impotent mad redeemer, and write over his thorn-torn brow: The TRUE prince of evil — the king of slaves!
No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!
I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.
I raise up in stern invasion the standard of the strong!
I gaze into the glassy eye of your fearsome Jehovah, and pluck him by the beard; I uplift a broad-axe, and split open his worm-eaten skull!
I blast out the ghastly contents of philosophically whited sepulchers and laugh with sardonic wrath!
“A metaphor for seeing God's signature in the world.”
An indication of what he meant by the term "The Big Music" of a Waterboys song, a phrase which came to be applied to the group's early musical style, and that of a few other bands, as quoted in "Pieces of eighties" by John Robinson, in The Guardian (23 April 2004) http://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/apr/24/popandrock1
Variant:
A metaphor for seeing God's vision in the world.
As quoted in "The Making Of... The Waterboys’ The Whole Of The Moon", in Uncut (June 2013) http://www.uncut.co.uk/the-waterboys/the-making-of-the-waterboys-the-whole-of-the-moon-feature
Yasser Harrak. 2010. "Origins of Insluting Islam in the Sunna and in Muslim societies". Annabaa Information Network. Accessed January 20, 2010. http://annabaa.org/nbanews/2010/05/243.htm
“You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
Dr. Stockmann, Act V
An Enemy of the People (1882)
“There is a red and angry world…”
Swamp Thing (1983–1987)
Context: There is a red and angry world...
Red things happen there.
The world eats your wife...
Eats your friends...
Eats all the things... that make you human...
And you become a monster.
And the world... just keeps on eating.