Essay: Oh, Shut Up! The Uses of Ranting

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But the internal rant eats at the ranter. It degenerates into impotent eloquence. It tears apart the system like hard drugs. Ranting, after all, is a form of theater, just as theater, too often, is a form of ranting. Both require an audience. --By Lance Morrow

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