Forever Changes

[Dave Monroe]

Former student of Sacvan Bercovitch, wrote thesis on
The Crying of Lot 49, much mention of Pynchon,
puritanism, paranoia, prophecy, aPocalyPticism, et al.
within ...

Hultkrans, Andrew.  Forever Changes.
  New York: Continuum, 2004.

Conceived as the last testament of a charismatic
recluse who believed he was about to die, 'Forever
Changes' is one of the defining albums of an era.
Here, Andrew Hultkrans explores the myriad depths of
this bizarre and brilliant record. Charting bohemian
Los Angeles’ descent into chaos at the end of the
‘60s, he teases out the literary and mystical
influences behind Arthur Lee’s lyrics, and argues that
Lee was both inspired and burdened by a powerful
prophetic urge. 

EXCERPT 'Forever Changes' may be thirty-six years old
at the time of this writing, but its hermetic fusion
of the personal and the political feels more relevant
than ever. It speaks to the present in ways that, say,
a Jefferson Airplane record never could, whatever the
parallels between the late ’60s and our contemporary
morass. For unlike most rock musicians of his time,
Arthur Lee was one member of the ’60s counterculture
who didn’t buy flower-power wholesale, who intuitively
understood that letting the sunshine in wouldn’t
instantly vaporize the world’s (or his own) dark
stuff. For him, the glittering surface of the Age of
Aquarius obscured an undertow of impending doom.

Author
Andrew Hultkrans
Andrew Hultkrans is editor-in-chief of Bookforum
magazine. Over the years, his writing has appeared in
Wired, Salon, Artforum, Filmmaker, and Tin House.

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