Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 143. Chapters: John Forbes Nash, Jr., Valerie Solanas, William Chester Minor, Camille Claudel, Vaslav Nijinsky, Buddy Bolden, Robert M. Pirsig, Brian Wilson, Richard Brautigan, U-God, Christopher Scarver, Mark David Chapman, Bettie Page, Wesley Willis, Adolf Wölfli, Francis E. Dec, Zelda Fitzgerald, Peter Sutcliffe, Princess Alice of Battenberg, Arthur Bremer, Donny Hathaway, Antonin Artaud, Cornelia Rau, Frances Farmer, Peter Green, Clarence Richeson, Juan Corona, Skip Spence, Roky Erickson, Aaron Kosminski, David Copeland, Louis Wain, John Eleuthère du Pont, Karl Maria Wiligut, Charles Ray Hatcher, Albert Goozee, Tsutomu Miyazaki, Nancy Spungen, James Tilly Matthews, Ottis Toole, Richard Chase, Jim Gordon, Kip Kinkel, Howard Unruh, Royal Robertson, Nathan Gale, Lord Nicholas Hervey, Edward Eugene Harper, Josef Hassid, Herbert Mullin, John Ogdon, Rufus May, Tom Harrell, Daniel Paul Schreber, Sylvia Seegrist, Katherine Routledge, Robert Napper, William Kurelek, Hannah Weiner, Tom Cavanagh, Joseph Kallinger, Carlos Cadona, Bob Mosley, Martín Ramírez, Jerry Brudos, Angus McPhee, Eduard Einstein, Tarcisio Merati, Talal of Jordan, Richard Lawrence, Houston, Herb Baumeister, Raymond Lee Harvey, Margaret Mary Ray, Mark Vonnegut, Sanna Sillanpää, Nathaniel Ayers, Uuno Kailas, August Natterer, Clarence 13X, Khieu Ponnary, Richard Tuite, Jeffrey Arenburg, James Chasse, Ingo Schwichtenberg, Lionel Aldridge, Marc Sappington, Dennis Sweeney, Elyn Saks, Genain quadruplets, Lucia Joyce, Cheyenne Brando, Zheng Yongshan, Suren Arakelov, Mark Rowntree, Mary Priestley. Excerpt: Francis E. Dec (January 6, 1926 ¿ January 21, 1996) was a U.S. lawyer from Hempstead Village, New York, disbarred for fraud in 1959, and later known for the bizarre socio-political tracts of conspiracy theories he mass-mailed to the media. Often denouncing a "Worldwide Mad Deadly Communist Gangster Computer God" mind-controlling mankind, Dec is considered to have been a paranoid schizophrenic of the influencing-machine delusion kind, and is often referred to as a "kook". Not unlike Ed Wood, Dec later became a cult figure referenced in underground culture. He was the subject of a 1994 book chapter, a 1998 comics, and a 1999 stage play; he also made his way into the folklores of the Discordians and the Church of the SubGenius. His rants have been reprinted in a 1983 issue of Robert Crumb's magazine Weirdo and circulated since 1986 from recordings by KROQ-FM host Doc Britton; they have been sampled in 1991 and 2004 by Psychic TV, in 2004 by Venetian Snares, and inspired a Coldcut album in 2005; they have been archived as outsider art by UbuWeb and WFMU; they spawned a fanclub and website; they have also been used as a gauge in 1994 for "kook typography" and in 1998 for the entropy of the undeciphered Voynich manuscript. Francis E. Dec was born on January 6, 1926, in the Nassau County, Long Island community of Hempstead Village, New York (a Black and Latino majority neighborhood, accounting later for its frequent racist designations in Dec's rants) and appears to have lived there for most of his life (except for his military service). His middle name is not established: there is only "*Francis Frank Dec" on his birth certificate, and "Dec Francis E" on his army's enlistment record. He was the son of two Polish immigrants, butcher John F. Dec (John Frank Dec, June 23, 1893 ¿ August, 1971; born Jan Dec) and servant turned housewife Rose M. Dec (~1889/1890 ¿ dea...
