“Our sacred demon of ungovernableness… Be secret. Child be strange, dark, true, impure, and dissonant. Cherish our flame.”

— Penda's Fen (1974)

"Are you tired of being nice? Don't you just want to go ape shitt."

— anonymous Yahoo! Answers user (2018)

PART ONE

EVIL

to be evil is to be strange, earnest, unapologetic, unyielding, confident, vulnerable, beautiful.

to be evil is to be ungovernable, dissonant, unfathomable, chaotic, principled.

to be evil is to reject purity, "wholesome" respectability, and to be a genuine joyous pervert.

to be evil is to be a hater, and to be a good hater you have to be a good lover.

“I am nothing pure. My race is mixed. My sex is mixed. I am woman and man. Light with darkness. Mixed. Mixed. I’m nothing special. Nothing pure. I am mud and flame.” — Penda's Fen (1974)

to be evil is to be mud and flame.