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Topic: moments of clarity |
MarciaBlaine
Initiate |
posted December 13, 1999 04:52 PM
  
Burroughs' Cities of the Red Night.
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's
Rainbow
Brett Easton Ellis' Glamorama
JP Sartre's Nausea
All good. Maybe the Ellis is a bit fashionable; but the subtexts
in it are astounding.
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glassonion
Initiate |
posted December 14, 1999 11:33 AM
Anyone interested in GM/AM's current 'fiction as magick' theorems
should definitely check out Iain Sinclair's shit, start with Lud
Heat, White Chappell Scarlet Tracings or Slow Chocolate Autopsy (w.
D. McKean) for a nice comics segue.
Sinclair does artistic urban shamanism better than anyone, and
he's definitely the biggest influence on all AM's work from the past
five years. He's also evident in the first book of the Invisibles
and everywhere in Ellis' Hellblazer.
Firsthand experience of London's psychogeography is helpful, but
not essential.
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70sman
Operative |
posted December 14, 1999 01:44 PM
Um , would I be right in assuming that AM = Alan Moore? Or am I just
being dumb again?
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MarciaBlaine
Initiate |
posted December 14, 1999 03:06 PM
...and "White Chapell, Scarlet Tracings" makes a nice companion to
AM's "From Hell" which I'm reading for the first time right
now...
...a good introduction to Sinclair is "lights out for the
territory", which should have been in my list above, along with the
"Principia Discordia"
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Twig the Wonder Kid
Operative |
posted December 14, 1999 07:16 PM
Marcia, you can't go recklessly recommending a book like Nauseu.
[wisp] was after a 'moment of clarity' not a total reassessment of
his reality.
The first time I read it it almost killed me.
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