Long Hard Road Out of Hell

T
O
B
ARB AND
H
UGH
W
ARNER
M
AY
G
OD FORGIVE THEM FOR BRINGING ME INTO THIS WORLD

But someday,

IN A STRONGER AGE THAN THIS DECAYING, SELF-DOUBTING PRESENT, HE MUST YET COME TO US, THE REDEEMING MAN, OF GREAT LOVE AND CONTEMPT, THE CREATIVE SPIRIT WHOSE COMPELLING STRENGTH WILL NOT LET HIM REST IN ANY ALOOFNESS OR ANY BEYOND, WHOSE ISOLATION IS MISUNDERSTOOD BY THE PEOPLE AS IF IT WERE FLIGHT FROM REALITY—WHILE IT IS ONLY HIS ABSORPTION, IMMERSION, PENETRATION INTO REALITY, SO THAT, WHEN HE ONE DAY EMERGES AGAIN INTO THE LIGHT, HE MAY BRING HOME THE REDEMPTION OF THIS REALITY; ITS REDEMPTION FROM THE CURSE THAT THE HITHERTO REIGNING IDEAL HAS LAID UPON IT
. T
HE MAN OF THE FUTURE, WHO WILL REDEEM US NOT ONLY FROM THE HITHERTO REIGNING IDEAL BUT ALSO FROM THAT WHICH WAS BOUND TO GROW OUT OF IT, THE GREAT NAUSEA, THE WILL TO NOTHINGNESS, NIHILISM; THIS BELL-STROKE OF NOON AND OF THE GREAT DECISION THAT LIBERATES THE WILL AGAIN AND RESTORES ITS GOAL TO THE EARTH AND HIS HOPE TO MAN; THIS
A
NTICHRIST AND ANTINIHILIST; THIS VICTOR OVER
G
OD AND NOTHINGNESS—HE MUST COME ONE DAY
.

—
Friedrich Nietzysche, On the Genealogy of Morals

CONTENTS

COVER

TITLE PAGE

DEDICATION

EPIGRAPH

I
NTRODUCTION BY
D
AVID
L
YNCH

I
. P
ART ONE
:
when i was a worm

 
1
T
HE
M
AN
T
HAT
Y
OU
F
EAR

 
2
F
OR
T
HOSE
A
BOUT TO
R
OCK
, W
E
S
USPEND
Y
OU

 
3
T
EEN
D
ABBLER

 
4
T
HE
R
OAD TO
H
ELL
I
S
P
AVED WITH
G
OOD
R
EJECTION
L
ETTERS

 
5
I W
ASN’T
B
ORN WITH
E
NOUGH
M
IDDLE
F
INGERS

II
. P
ART TWO:
deformography

 
6
T
HE
S
POOKY
K
IDS

 
7
D
IRTY
R
OCK
S
TAR

 
8
T
O
A
LL THE
P
EOPLE
W
HO
D
IDN’T
D
IE

 
9
T
HE
R
ULES

10
A
LL FOR
N
OTHING

11
W
E’RE
O
FF TO
S
EE THE
W
IZARD

12
A
BUSE
, P
ARTS
O
NE AND
T
WO

13
M
EATING THE
F
ANS
/ M
EAT AND
G
REET

III
. P
ART THREE:
how i got my wings

14
T
HE
R
EFLECTING
G
OD
[
DREAMS
]

15
A
NTICHRIST
S
UPERSTAR

16
F
IFTY
M
ILLION
S
CREAMING
C
HRISTIANS
C
AN’T
B
E
W
RONG

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PHOTO INSERT

PHOTO CREDITS

CREDITS

COPYRIGHT

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

ENDNOTE

INTRODUCTION

O
UTSIDE IT WAS RAINING CATS AND BARKING DOGS
. L
IKE AN EGG-BORN OFFSPRING OF COLLECTIVE HUMANITY, IN SAUNTERED MARILYN MANSON.
I
T WAS OBVIOUS—HE WAS BEGINNING TO LOOK AND SOUND A LOT LIKE
E
LVIS
.

D
AVID
L
YNCH
—N
EW
O
RLEANS 2:50 A.M.