Moorcock in Independent on Sunday - 01/10/2006
UK readers may like to know that Mike has a 2-page article on Mervyn Peake in today's Independent on Sunday newspaper (in the ABC magazine to be exact). The article is illustrated by several drawings by Peake and is an abridged version of the Introduction to Mervyn Peake: The Man and His Art (by Sebastian Peake and Alison Eldred).
Should still be a few hours left to pop down to the newsagent's to pick a copy up.
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_"He drifted through infinite jungles. Brightly coloured jungles in which vast, grotesque birds flew, obscuring the sky. The birds turned on him, their huge beaks wide. Lions prowled, their bodies green and their manes orange, turning into blindingly bright, abstract patterns that were no less terrifying.
_For an eternity Allard was alone in an icy limbo where all the colours were bright and sharp and comfortless.
_For another eternity Allard swam through seas without end, all green and cool and deep, where distorted creatures drifted, sometimes attacking him.
_And then, at last, he had reached the real world – the world he had created, where he was God and could create or destroy whatever he wished.
_He was supremely powerful. He told planets to destroy themselves, and they did. He created suns. Beautiful women flocked to be his. Of all men, he was the mightiest. Of all gods, he was the greatest."
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