A Glastonbury Romance

[Craig Clark]

Richard Romeo Rites:

> Pynchon folks might want to take a look at John Cowper Powys, 
> specifically _A Glastonbury Romance_ (i'm halfway through) which has just 
> been re-released by Overlook Press.  The story of a town in England and 
> its mystical underpinnings as experienced not only by its citizenry 
> (including an Profane like anarchist arranging a blasphemous Passion 
> Play, an archeologist who just might be mad in renouncing this world for 
> other mystical aspirations who is to play Christ in the aforementioned 
> play) but also from the point of view of its trees, its rocks, its 
> buildings, its streets, its rivers, etc.  Its over 1000 pgs so get your 
> reading arms in shape.

Wholly off-topic, but if any of the p-listers are going to be in 
Durban, South Africa, this Easter (another fine Patti Smith album, 
BTW), they may just want to drift on by the 50th performance of the 
Durban Passion Play, which has a rather theologically questionable 
script (IMHO). And even if the dude playing Christ isn't a mad 
archaeologist, the person playing Herod is a 
definitely-not-quite-right-in-the-head P-lister....

 
Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"