“Poetry sees the starlight smile of children” Shelley said, seeing this as life’s truest wealth. In Shelley’s world the “natural order Has no place for tyrants” – Neutering the beauty of the earth, With all its inspirational beings: Plants, animals, humans, And elemental presences. He was an atheist Of a most particular kind For his own spirit is ever present In … [Read more...]
The Curse of the Blinding Worm. A close look at ‘Observed While Falling: Bill Burroughs, Ah Pook and Me’, by Malcolm McNeill
Colin Wilson read this extraordinary book at a single sitting. He can’t have been an exception. Malcolm McNeill’s Observed While Falling: Bill Burroughs, Ah Pook and Me sweeps you up into a multi-layered adventure that presses almost every button: it’s philosophy; it’s science fiction and it’s science fact. It plays astonishing tricks with reality. It’s a wild phantasmagoria … [Read more...]
