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[dreamer_easy]

I think that watching an updated music video for Russell Morris' The Real Thing, which mixed footage of the young and older Morris, nukes, Hitler, and contemporary news (eg neglected Romanian orphans), in this mental state, may have been a bad idea.

Via the Luther Arkwright audio I've returned to my childhood Jerry Cornelius thing. (This makes me blush, which makes me suspect that he was one of my teenage literary crushes. *rolls eyes* Anyway.) In fact, just a few weeks ago I stumbled across one of the short stories (in an anthology I cannot now locate), and was drawn in even though surrounding, similar New Wave stories did nothing for me. [ETA: It was The Tank Trapeze in New Worlds 7.]

Twice the age now I was when I read The Final Programme etc, I'm much better equipped to "get it" now. The huge sense of random, cosmic pointlessness, yet with a mocking sense of humour. The Kali vision. None of it makes sense; none of it really matters in the long run; it's too huge and too horrible and too silly.

Of course, revelations like this are a tediously obvious side effect of the brane wobbles.

Comments

[sheramil.livejournal.com]

That anothology would be "The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius", right? got a copy here if you're at all interested.

i'd offer to ring up and read it over the 'phone, but i have a cold.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Is it for sale? (The book, I mean, not your cold.)

[sheramil.livejournal.com]

i could mail it to you, but if i accepted money that would make me a dealer. the authorities are really cracking down on that sort of thing around here.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

You are too kind! Sadly, I cannot be trusted with loaned books, as they tend to return covered in dust bunnies, coffee stains, squashed bugs and cat pee. I have located a dirt cheap second hand copy and shall pursue it.

[gooofy.livejournal.com]

I love the Jerry Cornelius stories... the last one in The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius deals with the events of 2001. I sort of copied the style of these stories for the Doctor Who short stories I wrote for Mythmakers and it was a lot of fun.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Cornelius and 9/11... Jesus Dog, this I have to see.

[irritant01.livejournal.com]

I'm tellin' ya, Lovan + Lamicatal is the winning combo for me. Lovan for the blues, Lamictal for the mood swings. Works wonders and so few side effects. i've been completely stable for a long time now.

The only problem is... well, I kinda miss the highs. I know that they're part of the whole bipolar disorder - you can't have the highs without the crushing lows - but I miss the feeling of power, focus and invincibility they used to give me.

I remember many years ago I used to front up on my friend Adam's doorstep at night and insist we go "visiting". There was an urge to do something, to be around people and talk and be social. It was quite irrational. I realise now it was a marker of my "high" periods.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

It's interesting how it affects the writing - the plus of enthusiasm, the minus of being unable to ooh look, jam rolls!

I'm going to talk to my shrinkydink about it next week, if possible. It's more than I can manage.

[jondennis.livejournal.com]

I've read the four Cornelius books four times. Most recently, a couple of years ago, I read all the Cornelius material in a row. I get more out of them each time.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

One thing I'm looking forward to is finding out which novel has an exposition scene where Jerry and a waitress get so bored they shag under the table.