![]() ![]() Like Gray’s 1984 novel 1982, Janine, the collection is filled with typographic experiments, a kind of concrete poetry in prose I guess. Like this one:Īlasdair Gray’s collection Unlikely Stories, Mostly is also crammed with illustrations-Gray’s own, like this one: It’s filled with photographs and diagrams and charts. The book seems to be a history of the occult organization the Golden Dawn, or, more to the point, the roots of that organization. ![]() I had never heard of Colquhoun’s book, but I’m a fan of her paintings and the cover struck me. Ballard’s The Unlimited Dream Company, Alasdair Gray’s Unlikely Stories, Mostly, and surrealist artist Ithell Colquhoun’s ostensible biography of the occultist Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (of the Golden Dawn). I had intended to browse just a bit and not pick up anything (apart from a few Jeff VanderMeer novels my son had asked for), but I wound up getting three books: a pristine first U.S. After an early spring purge n’ clean, I took a few boxes of books to my local used bookstore. ![]()
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