Well Kelly (whoever he is) makes a very good point.
Just this last couple of hours i've had a similar annoying experience whilst reading Wizard the trade comics magazine (for work reasons!) where the comic artist Alex Ross is talking about some of his favourite paintings. He talks about a painting he made of Alan Moore incorporating all Moores creations and characters, Miracleman, V, Swamp Thing, Constantine, etc. In the middle of the painting is Alan Moores big bearded face and Ross talks about how due to his in depth research and detail, he even drew in a faint image of a pentagram in Moores eyeball in honour of From Hell where the pentagram is a symbol of the entire layout of North Hampton. Well, the geeky fanboy in me just squirmed. Unless it was needless editorial intervention from Wizard that?s a fucking howling mistake and a pretty insulting one in that it implies that he hasn?t actually read the source material and is just going through the motions. It was a good picture though.
This has also reminded me of a book I read recently called The Secret Life of Puppets written by Victoria Nelson, which is a fucking great book about the esoteric and occult influences in our society today which are often overlooked (i?m doing the book a massive disservice by that lame description?seek it out!) but in which she talks about Alan Moores Nightwatchmen. Again, someone who obviously hasn?t read it as she gets the fucking title wrong but who puts it into her book and talks about it and it?s influences anyway. Still, a very good book but it makes me wonder that if I can pick out that bit of obvious hackism just because I know my Alan Moore comics, what am I being fucked over with when she talks about Bruno Schultz, Rainer Maria Rilke or E.T.A. Hoffmann.
The authority of being in print. You see this a lot when you start reading books on history or the history of religion. Wallis Budge says that Egypt was a polytheistic country with a monotheistic underlining so that goes along for a few decades until he?s discredited but you still get books on Egyptology printed now that still quote him, and his ideas, verbatim.
I?ve drunkenly rambled off the point of the thread
I guess what I?m saying is, and this is so so so so done because all of us do it every day whether we acknowledge it or not, don?t take anyones opinion as any sort of truisim because it?s in a book. Or anywhere else for that matter.
There is no us or i.
Whilst galloping around up here just want to say that think that most people need some sort of E Prime training that will separate us from ourselves.
GL doesn?t know his arse from his elbow!
Back to the thread.
Fred Gettings.
Demons.
Tarot.
Palmistry.
Dreams.
Occult.
Hack.
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