Fury

Salman Rushdie wrote a novel by this title which centered around the life of a very angry Professor Solanka. This was one of the first novels I read of Rushdie's and I was completely blown away. I also got to know about the three furies for the first time - Alecto, Tisiphone and Megaera - who did not listen or were not moved by anyone or anybody and did as they pleased wreaking their vengeance. They appear in Greek mythology.

Why do people get angry though? Do some people always need disorder and chaos in their lives to survive? There is a song by Garbage called "I'm only happy when it rains" in which the lyrics go something like this:

I'm only happy when it rains
I'm only happy when its complicated
You know I love it when the news is bad

I think that some people like to thrive on disorder and it all stems from the inner bitterness they feel inside. But I do not know. Any ideas on this would be mucho appreciated.

Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge. ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry. ~Lyman Abbott

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. ~Bede Jarrett

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~Author Unknown