by Higgs, JMR
Eris is out there, somewhere, following her messy orbit. She may be ignored by those who simplify the solar system into a neat, orderly model. She may not be taught in schools. She may never be well known, or discussed in everyday conversation.
But she is out there. Synchronicities are only synchronicities if you choose to notice them. Paying attention to them is entirely optional, and it makes no differences to dwarf planets like Eris.
Regardless of if or how you think about her, she remains out there.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The author wishes to blame the following for their assistance, insights, bursts of enthusiasm and help in putting the commas in the right places. This book would not exist without them:
Gary Acord
Jason Arnopp
Flinton Chalk
Joanne Mallon
Shardcore
Ian Simmons
CJ Stone
Greg Taylor
The author also wishes to thank every KLF fan who scanned an interview, digitised a track, ran an ftp server or in any other way made the entire history of The KLF available online. Much appreciated, all.
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR
THE BRANDY OF THE DAMNED
A short novel.
Russell, Penny and Will have not seen each other for twenty years. Why, then, do they spend a month driving around the coast of Britain in a van refusing to listen to music? Why do they find little blue bottles washing up on the shore containing pages from a future Bible? And why is Penny carrying such a huge spade?
Funny, surprising and good-hearted, The Brandy of the Damned is a dream-like short novel which reveals different things each time it is read. It is the literary equivalent of stepping off the path and heading out into the woods, knowing that if you can’t see what’s ahead you will never be bored.
The Brandy of the Damned is a genuinely original story told by a unique voice.
“An increasingly mesmerising hybrid of engaging travelogue and unsettling genre elements” – Jason Arnopp
“A child’s tale of the imagination told for adults, in a way that is both beautiful and entertaining” – CJ Stone
“A meta-magical fugue full of unexpected, almost accidental, profundity… it travels through a landscape where just about anything might happen while never compromising the readers belief in the reality of the characters” – Zenbullets
Published by The Big Hand 2012.
Available in paperback and as a dirt-cheap ebook.
ISBN 978-0-9564163-5-3
I HAVE AMERICA SURROUNDED: THE LIFE OF TIMOTHY LEARY
The brilliant first biography of the man President Nixon called 'the most dangerous man in America'.
Timothy Leary was one of the most controversial and divisive figures of the twentieth century. President Nixon called him 'the most dangerous man in America.' Hunter S. Thompson said that he was 'not just wrong, but a treacherous creep and a horrible goddamn person.' Yet the writer Terence McKenna claims that he 'probably made more people happy than anyone else in history.’
A brilliant Harvard psychologist, Leary was sacked because of his research into LSD and other psychedelic drugs. He went on to become the global figurehead of the 1960s drug culture, coin the phrase ‘tune in, turn on and drop out’, and persuade millions of people to take drugs and explore alternative lifestyles yet the tremendous impact of his 'scandalous' research has been so controversial that it has completely overshadowed the man himself and the details of his life. Few people realise that Timothy Leary's life is one of the greatest untold adventure stories of the twentieth century.
Timothy Leary led a life of unflagging optimism and reckless devotion to freedom. It was, in the words of his goddaughter Winona Ryder, ‘not just epic grandeur but flat-out epic grandeur.' Leary's life is undoubtedly one of the greatest untold adventure stories of the twentieth century and this book presents it for the first time in all its uncensored glory.
(P) THE FRIDAY PROJECT 2006
ISBN 978-1905548255
Available on ebook and paperback.