NP Kenneth Patchen

[Otto]

Kenneth Patchen: "The Journal of Albion Mooonlight,"
recommended by Byron the Bulb on his
http://user.fundy.net/leemale/ilkoidex.htm -site.

I'm at p. 96 now, mostly reading at night (behind the wheel) and I think
it's a fascinating book.

Otto

THE BOOK OF THE LIVING
(SYNCOPATED ECSTACY)
A review of The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen
by Brian Pinsker

"Moonlight is an intensely anti-war allegory with comic existential
philosophy sprinkled throughout. Patchen's anti-nationalist, anti-class,
anti-racist sentiments come through strongly. There is a hilarious dialogue
between Albion and the army recruiting officer in which Albion says there is
no way he would ever hurt his own people, and that all of mankind are his
people. He is intensely against capitalism: "Capitalism and Fascism are one
under the iron mask. Fascism is the expression of Capitalism's death
struggle. War is the life blood of capitalism; it is the body and soul of
fascism." The war is raging around the towering figure of Albion Moonlight,
and he has a war raging inside his soul, but he's baptized by moonlight and
walks the sorely troubled world with the aplomb of a messiah."

http://www.outerdark.com/spleen1/albionmoonlight.html