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Tag Archives: 1960s
The Savoy Truffle by Patrick Harpur
The kitchen was narrow and dark, so it was difficult to see what damage the bluebottle – if it had been a bluebottle, which was by no means certain – it might not have been a fly at all – … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Literature, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged 1960s, Beatles, Britain, British fiction, British Literature, British Novel, character development, character study, Chocolates, comedy, Depth Psychology, dickensian, Divorce, English history, Family, fiction, George Harrison, Literature, Mackintosh chocolates, Marriage, Mod, nostalgia, novel, Patrick Harpur, philosophy, Post-war era, Rockers, Savoy Truffle, Surrey, Tennis Clubs, Thriller, Truffles
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Lud Heat: A Book of the Dead Hamlets by Iain Sinclair
Standing there, on a walk along the whole chain of Hawksmoor churches, we notice five minor obelisks in the fenced area beyond Blake’s burial slab. The Old Street obelisk is aligned beyond the boundary wall: the point of force is discovered. We also come … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s, 1970s, Alan Moore, Albion Village Press, Angela Carter, anthologies, Architecture, Arthur Machen, avant garde, BBC, Bookdealers, British Avant Garde, British Literature, British mysteries, British poetry, Cardif, Chaos magic, Charles Baudelaire, churches in london, Conductors of Chaos, Dining on Stones, documentary, Downriver, Earth Mysteries, Edge of Orison, esoteric, Euclidian, filmmaker, Flaneur, Geography, gnosticism, Gothic, Guy Debord, Hackney, Hawksmoor, hawksmoor churches, History, iain sinclair, innermost sanctuary, J.G. Ballard, Landor's Tower, Lettrists, Ley Lines, Lights out for the Territory, Literature, London, London Film School, London Orbital, London Psychogeographical Association, Louis Aragon, Lud Heat, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Moorcock, nomad, Occult, Peter Akroyd, Psychogeography, ratcliffe highway, River Thames, Robert Graves, Shamanism, Sigil magic, Situationists, Suicide Bridge, Surrealism, The Workshop for Non-Linear Architecture, Thomas De Quincey, Underground, Walking tours, Walter Benjamin, white chappell, WIll Self, William Blake, writing
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Iain Sinclair on Skylight Press
Iain Sinclair describes himself as a “British writer, documentarist, film maker, poet, flâneur, metropolitan prophet and urban shaman, keeper of lost cultures and futurologist.” He was born in Cardiff in 1943 but has lived much of his life in Hackney, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s, 1970s, Alan Moore, Albion Village Press, Angela Carter, anthologies, Architecture, Arthur Machen, avant garde, BBC, Bookdealers, British Avant Garde, British Literature, British mysteries, British poetry, Cardif, Chaos magic, Charles Baudelaire, Conductors of Chaos, Dining on Stones, documentary, Downriver, Earth Mysteries, Edge of Orison, esoteric, Euclidian, filmmaker, Flaneur, Geography, gnosticism, Gothic, Guy Debord, Hackney, Hawksmoor, History, iain sinclair, J.G. Ballard, Landor's Tower, Lettrists, Ley Lines, Lights out for the Territory, London, London Film School, London Orbital, London Psychogeographical Association, Louis Aragon, Lud Heat, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Moorcock, nomad, Occult, Peter Akroyd, Psychogeography, River Thames, Robert Graves, Shamanism, Sigil magic, Situationists, Suicide Bridge, Surrealism, The Workshop for Non-Linear Architecture, Thomas De Quincey, Underground, Walking tours, Walter Benjamin, white chappell, WIll Self, William Blake
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