Coming back to report on my progress of reading my Lent book this year, which as I said in my last post is Grant Morrison's The Invisibles.
All acts of magic have the magician as their primary target, and reading a book so notoriously magical can only be described as transformative. Morrison described how he put a spell in it to turn the reader into an Invisible and without publishing details of things that are overly personal, it's hitting some serious stuff and pressing buttons.
In terms of stuff which is sayable in public, this post was prompted by the idea of a Hand of Glory (in folklore the hand of a hanged man used by burglars as a sort of candle to put the household to sleep so that they could burgle it undisturbed) which makes obscene gestures is so very me. I also particularly love a scene where Jack Frost makes a magic circle from fag ends taken from the Tesco bag Tom O'Bedlam gave him.
My only sorrow is that at least in appearance I seem to be passing from King Mob to Tom O'Bedlam!
An interesting book indeed! I think I've seen this downstairs in Mister ProxBlue's collection. "Burgle" is one of my favorite words! I find it a hilarious and I can't take it seriously. I used to frequent a web forum, and I remember someone had titled a post about a hack as "e-hamburglery" and I laughed about it for days. The "Hamburgler" was one of the McDonald's puppet characters from the 1980s commercials and he was my favorite. I am after all, a child of the 1980s. LOL
ReplyDeleteAh so that's what the hamburglar is!
DeleteBy coincidence today I was listening to one of those reaction videos which mentioned how you say burglarize and we don't!