What's in a Name?

Since the probability of anyone reading this is miniscule, and lower still after my initial post (especially for you thin-skinned pukes who can't take an insult), it is up to me to ask myself the question, "What the deal with the title?"

"The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" is a super-creepy, if somewhat unintelligible story by Harlan Ellison, first published in Galaxy Magazine in 1968 ... I like to think the story's oppressive violence offended the hippies of the time ... and hippies down through the decades for that matter. However, please don't confuse me with, or assume I am some sort of sci-fi-phile ... outside of Robert Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land", which is epic, I find the genre inaccessible, and it's proponents -- in general -- socially maladjusted.

So, why steal the title? Just as Jules Winnfield's scocio-biblical diatribe in "Pulp Fiction" was admitted to be, "... Some cold blooded shit that I'd say before I pop a cap in some motherfucker's ass ... " the truth is simple; I like the way it sounds. (See the way I dropped you a nice, relatable pop-culture reference, there?)

Good question, next.