Savage Words

<p>The meaning these texts are intended to convey is rather monotonous; they all say in one form or another I don't like you. Hence the whole point of producing them is to communicate this age-old message in new and unprecedented ways. We might be rather unimaginative in our day-to-day interactions but when we sit down to write a certain degree of novelty is imperative. In fact one would say that in order to work no two <em>orationes invectivae</em> can be exactly alike (not even humanistic ones). At the same time however one doesn't want to be so inventive that the audience fails to recognize the text for what it actually is. This double constraint (creativity and transparency) produces an endless quantity of variations and is the real engine of that verbal inventiveness we see at play; ultimately this is the reason why we find these texts so interesting to study and to write.</p><p></p><p>From the Introduction by Gianluca Rizzo</p><p></p><p></p>