I'm a fan of Peter Riley's work,William Blake, things Fortean and the
artist-occultist Austin Osman Spare, so it was a great moment for me to
see them all come together on page 63 of the October 2011 issue of
Fortean Times in a review of the latest Spare bio by Phil Baker. The
review was penned by Noel Rooney who says, in part:
"I was less convinced by the comparison with Blake, made by Baker and by
Alan Moore in the forward. First Blake's vision is so different from
Spare's; Peter Riley's line--"a nation is the logarithm of its
love"--would have chimed with Blake, but would, I suspect, have
appalled Spare..."
While skate-boarding through accounts of ghosts, sea monsters and
Shakepeare's secret cadre of writers bent on propping the tottering
bard up--Bacon, and the like--it was a fine thing to catch a brilliant
line of Peter's flashing over Tokyo Tower with a twinkling of purple
and and orange lights.
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