Would you be thinking of Finnegans Wake by any chance?
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Posts: 47 4 January, 2008 10:30 PM |
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War Arrow |
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Posts: 710 5 January, 2008 9:50 AM |
Just so happens that I might be. Please don't tell me I'm the first person to have spotted that.
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Daniel OMahony |
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little sister/brother
Posts: 47 5 January, 2008 11:53 AM |
It has been mentioned on this thread here - http://factionparadox.yuku.com/reply/4840#reply-4840 - so you're not the first!
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War Arrow |
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Posts: 710 5 January, 2008 4:59 PM |
Damn. I knew I should have made the effort to read back through the previous pages.
Oh well. Whilst I'm here, anyone got a date yet (besides just January)? Anyone know how it's looking with the advanced orders and so on? I have my fingers crossed and several Huastec captives offered up to Chicomexochitl (God of scribes - seemed the most appropriate) in hope of massive sales - after all, it seems like this might be the most anticipated FP novel since BotW. |
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Posts: 444 5 January, 2008 9:07 PM |
A glimpse at www.randomstatic.net will answer all the above questions for you. The date is one week from today.
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Posts: 14 8 January, 2008 5:54 AM |
I have a few questions, if that's okay.
Mr O'Mahony (can I call you Dan? or perhaps O'Maho will suffice), will Hamfatter be performing music at the Toi Pōneke Gallery? Furthermore, can you ever see yourself collaborating with Hamfatter in the future? It seems to be a growing trend with Who authors, what with Gary Russell's frequent jam sessions with Erasure and Nick Brigg's upcoming IDM album with Warp Records. And let's not forget Pip and Jane Baker's folk duo. Also, looking forward to the novel. Thanks for your thyme. |
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little sister/brother
Posts: 47 8 January, 2008 2:58 PM |
Sadly my talents don't extend in a musical direction...
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Posts: 847 8 January, 2008 10:24 PM cousin curmudgeon |
NaffArmpitTerranceDicks wrote: First off, it's Jonny Morris who's "in" with Erasure, and secondly the only thing less believable than Nick Briggs releasing an IDM album is Warp releasing an IDM album. I honestly can't remember the last time they did. |
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Posts: 444 9 January, 2008 12:15 AM |
Anyway, there's a long tradition of sci-fi authors providing texts and songwords for musicians - I think particularly of Michael Moorcock's
collaborations with Hawkwind and Blue Oyster Cult. And I do note that Random Static has a musician on its roster. Perhaps I've said too much already.
The Stacks - the site for
Faction Paradox fanfic and other fanworks
"Larry was with us in spirit" - Kate Orman
(for more of my messed up thoughts on culture, magick and revolutionary politics) |
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little sister/brother
Posts: 14 9 January, 2008 2:06 AM |
arfiem wrote: Aha, you're right on both accounts. Maybe someone should tell him to swap over to Rephlex, a much more practical idea. But I was right about the folk
duo, I think. I also forgot to mention Mags L Halliday's brief stint as the bassist of The Pipettes.
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Posts: 847 13 January, 2008 1:18 AM cousin curmudgeon |
Daniel OMahony wrote: I've always felt your username was a subtle allusion to Finnegans Wake, as it happens. |
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Daniel OMahony |
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Posts: 47 13 January, 2008 12:35 PM |
It's more of a prosaic attempt to pre-empt internet software that can't cope with punctuation in user names... but from now I'll pretend it's
an allusion to Joyce.
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Posts: 710 24 January, 2008 8:22 PM |
Well, Daniel. If it doesn't sound too fawning, that was fan-f******-tastic on absolutely every front. I'm bordering on lost for words, though I can
certainly manage 'beautiful' and ultimately 'breathtaking.'
In lieu of forming coherent sentences or pertinent insight-laden questions - how long did it take you? It's a real epic. An absolute Cistine Chapel of a novel. If I don't stop now I'm going to turn into a Bay City Rollers screamer circa 1975 which might prove undignified so I'll stop. |
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Posts: 47 25 January, 2008 1:07 PM |
War Arrow wrote: Don't worry - I can cope with that if you can. Just so long as I don't have to wear Tartan flares or sing...
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War Arrow |
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Posts: 710 25 January, 2008 7:43 PM |
Ugh. Starting to feel like Harry Enfield's "only meeee" character here. I'll run out of questions soon, I swear.
I've been wondering about the general theme of the book. At present I'm still a little burnt out with all the information, though I've started reading again at a more leisurely pace and an idea of what to look out for this time round. At the moment I'm working on an assumption that the clue is in the title, or at least the Blake quotation from which it's taken - er, something along the lines of the the rationalist vs. the imagined and dogma vs. free thought, though I'm not quite sure if I mean rationalist dogma vs. imaginative free thought or free rational thought vs. imagined dogma; in fact I'm starting to wonder what the hell I do mean. Does that make sense, or is there some larger theme I've missed? Please feel free to tell me the theme is in fact space guys messing with human history. Oh and by the way - The Homeworld Chronicles - nice touch.  And well
done for not getting too carried away with that one.
Just for the record, Blake apparently had his big visions (or some of them) just down the road from me on Peckham Rye. I imagine the place has changed a bit. These days it's better known for various shootings and stabbings and other such youthful pastimes. Kids eh? tsk tsk EDIT: Aha "scientific vs. spiritual view of the universe" was possibly what I was scratching around for, praise be to Wikipedia. Also surprised to discover that Aphra Behn was a non-fictional character.
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Posts: 47 26 January, 2008 1:28 AM |
I suspect Peckham Rye was probably known for various shootings and stabbings back in Blake's day as well... Probably the worst thing that can happen to a book is the author popping up and pontificating at length about What It All Means, especially if it's only
just been published. I'd rather people had fun talking about it, trying to make sense of it and even - at a pinch - plotting revenge.
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War Arrow |
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Posts: 710 27 January, 2008 11:28 AM |
Daniel OMahony wrote: Hmmm. Now you put it like that.... fair point.
Edit: proper question due to my being unable to find an answer online, for some reason. This might fall under the heading of 'book theme' so, if you take the diplomatic silence option fair enough, but I thought I may as well ask. I'm wrestling with that line from Blake. It reads as: "May God us keep from Single vision and Newtons sleep" which on the surface appears to amount to 'God save us from single vision and the sort of stuff that you'd get if there weren't no Isaac Newton to set us straight', except the slumbering plural Newtons suggest a possibly less contradictory interpretation of 'God save us from Single vision and while He's at it it might be a good idea if he could tell Newton to shut the f*** up.' Is it my imagination or is there a certain ambiguity about this line. Surely Newton (as supposed father of modern science)would represent 'Single vision' to Blake, as the stuff I've seen online seems to suggest.
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Daniel OMahony |
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Posts: 47 28 January, 2008 4:45 PM |
I think that's sufficiently non-book related for me to take a stab at replying... I wouldn't want to claim any special insight into Blake's work,
but based on what I know I'd say that for him, Newton represents a kind of archetypal mechaniser who reduces the natural world to materialist components.
Blake's influence does tend to hang over me so there is probably an element of that in Newtons Sleep. Blake couldn't have known how much of an
alchemist Newton was, but I'm not sure that it would have made much of a difference to him - I think he would still have seen Newton in terms of a titan
sitting on a rock and obsessively measuring things. ('Newtons Sleep' as a phrase also has that kind of dual meaning that Goya's 'Sleep of
Reason' has... but let's not go there!)
As for Lawrence, I wouldn't want to imply I'd ever do him a physical injury... but he does live in fear that I can somehow invade his dreams and destroy him from within. He's now gone for 273 consecutive nights without sleep. He had to sell off his Evil Renegade collection on ebay just to pay for all the coffee. |
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Posts: 47 7 October, 2008 6:14 PM |
If anyone's interested, I've got a Q&A thing going on the forums at Pantechnicon.net. Please feel free to sign up and ask me the same questions
you've already asked me on here.
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