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i'm thinking (not very clearly) about peter ackroyd and iain sinclair, i guess, and maybe ian penman to some degree (though poss only because i remember him bigging up iain s in the guardian a while back). anyway, i like them both quite a bit, but i'm always bothered by the ley lines etc; i think mostly because such things are clearly rub. but on the other hand perhaps they should be discussed because of their influences on us (now my ignorance is really shining through!).

so, umm, someone say something that clarifies this a bit!

― toby, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

also has just occurred to me that i am completely certain that ackroyd + sinclair have large beards, but penman is clean shaven, though i have never seen photos of any of them. google picture search here i come!

― toby, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it appears that my facial hair judgements were rather off the mark.

― toby, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

any mysticism in sinclair, and possibly ackroyd, strikes me as aesthetic/emotional rather than 'spiritual', it is this which allows it to be got away with. i cant really expand on this that well though. interesting question

― gareth, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ackroyd's interest in psychogeography is quite cool I think. I don't agree it's just aesthetic.. I think under the right circs old pete would don a robe and git dowsin. He just doesn't hang out in the right circles.

― misterjones, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anyone familiar with comic writer Alan Moore here? He was an old friend, but as far as I'm concerned he's gone completely off the rails with all this stuff, though I admit that I do really like the fact that he chose history's crappiest fake god to worship - a snake god that was eventually exposed as a glove puppet!

― Martin Skidmore, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I didn't realize Alan Moore was that crazy!

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ten months pass...

Tell us more about this glove puppet hoax.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 10 March 2003 03:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I only vaguely remember: Alan has talked about it at length in some interviews. I have a notion it was a Roman demigod/prophet-snake, that was eventually revealed to be a high class glove puppet. Alan's point is something to do with it not mattering what you worship, that it's something to do with the acts and rituals of worship that matters. Don't ask me to make sense of it.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 10 March 2003 18:28 (twenty-three years ago)

All hail the chickenbear!

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 10 March 2003 18:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember an interview where he said he saw a demon that looked like a huge pile of diamonds. He goes, 'Of course, it looked nothing like a demon, but I knew what it was anyway.'

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Monday, 10 March 2003 18:30 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

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― bosko, Monday, 14 June 2004 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

i love the automatic assumption that anything metaphysical is instantly "rubbish".

― gullipledupe (latebloomer), Monday, 14 June 2004 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

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