An exhilarating Ballardian novel of ideas circulating around obsession, authenticity and the nature of reality. The anonymous narrator has undergone intensive rehabilitation after a traumatic accident, but it has left him adrift from life, alienated from reality. He sees himself as ‘an interloper’, ‘a voyeur’ to the real. In an effort to reconnect to reality… Continue reading The Remainder – Tom McCarthy
“What the hell is this? What the heck am I reading?” I would cry in desperation looking up from the page. “Does this even hold together?” And then the realisation: “Is it me holding it together? Constructing it on the fly?” But then I’d fall back into the pages and the controlled intensity of the… Continue reading A German Picturesque – Jason Shwartz
The V. T-shirt, based on the 1980s Bantam edition typography, is now available to buy on Redbubble.
Notes as I read Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian On Nature Nature is sentient. The landscape alive with hostile, insidious intent towards man. The land is bloodily bound to the ideas of fate and destiny, were the life and death of men are the price and the penance. "yet if he gave thanks to any good… Continue reading Blood Meridian Notes
Imagism, Vorticism and Cathay Ezra Pound’s Ideogramic Method, as formulated in Guide to Kulchur and in practice in The Cantos, arose out of a continuous evolution of the Luminous Detail principles he set down in 1911, in conjunction with the principles of Imagism and their expansion into Vorticism. It is the fusing and interplay of these elements in his… Continue reading Ezra Pound – Towards the Ideogramic Method
The night I read M. John Harrison's The Great God Pan, I dreamt I went to the Magus of Northampton, Alan Moore's house for elucidation. His house was a Dionysian temple as re-imagined by Capability Brown, more an Eighteenth Century version of a Greek temple built on a snug scale for two or three occupants. From… Continue reading Alan Moore, M. John Harrison & Me
A worthy follow on from James Joyce, and continuing the sequence of literature T-shirts, here are two Thomas Pynchon tees. Both Pynchon Tees are available at Cafepress
Three designs based on brilliant enigmatic quotes from Ulysses. Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery Ineluctably constructed upon the incertitude of the void All three James Joyce T-shirts are available at… Continue reading James Joyce T-shirts
This T-shirt is based on Alfred Garth Jones' design for the first edition cover of The Hound of the Baskervilles from 1902. Sherlock Holmes Baskervilles T-shirt available at cafepress.com / co.uk
& following on from the Moby Dick post, where I mentioned you can't have too many copies. This here Oxford World's Classics edition is the only copy of Ulysses you'll ever need. Or I should at least qualify that with saying it's a fantastic edition for a first time reader. With maps, appendixes, and an… Continue reading Ulysses
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