"Well, I may have found the gold here, but it is loading so slowly on this computer I can't tell. This list has gone from 1996 to 1998 so far but I still need 1999 to get to my writings posted on the list from Saint Augustine, if those were archived." --Will Dockery

"BEAT-L: Beat Generation List":
http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/doc/B-L-BIG/B-L-BIG-06-20190224a.htm

Just found this and am exploring... quite interesting...

On Friday, September 15, 2023 at 5:30:15 PM UTC-4, General-Zod wrote:
>
> "Well, I may have found the gold here, but it is loading so slowly on this computer I can't tell. This list has gone from 1996 to 1998 so far but I still need 1999 to get to my writings posted on the list from Saint Augustine, if those were archived." --Will Dockery
>
>
> "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List":
> http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/doc/B-L-BIG/B-L-BIG-06-20190224a.htm
>
> Just found this and am exploring... quite interesting...

Good find, Zod.

General-Zod wrote:

> "Well, I may have found the gold here, but it is loading so slowly on this computer I can't tell. This list has gone from 1996 to 1998 so far but I still need 1999 to get to my writings posted on the list from Saint Augustine, if those were archived." --Will Dockery

> "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List":
> http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/doc/B-L-BIG/B-L-BIG-06-20190224a.htm

> Just found this and am exploring... quite interesting...

I need to get back on the search for the complete archive of the Beat Generation List, a lot of interesting posts were there.

Will Dockery wrote:
> General-Zod wrote:
>
> > "Well, I may have found the gold here, but it is loading so slowly on this computer I can't tell. This list has gone from 1996 to 1998 so far but I still need 1999 to get to my writings posted on the list from Saint Augustine, if those were archived." --Will Dockery
>
>
> > "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List":
> > http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/doc/B-L-BIG/B-L-BIG-06-20190224a.htm
>
> > Just found this and am exploring... quite interesting...
> I need to get back on the search for the complete archive of the Beat Generation List, a lot of interesting posts were there.

It is proving difficult to locate... today I am going through the archives for sites that include "will dockery"...

https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/Will%20Dockery

Faraway Star wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>> General-Zod wrote:
>>
>> > "Well, I may have found the gold here, but it is loading so slowly on this computer I can't tell. This list has gone from 1996 to 1998 so far but I still need 1999 to get to my writings posted on the list from Saint Augustine, if those were archived." --Will Dockery
>>
>>
>> > "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List":
>> > http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/doc/B-L-BIG/B-L-BIG-06-20190224a.htm
>>
>> > Just found this and am exploring... quite interesting...
>> I need to get back on the search for the complete archive of the Beat Generation List, a lot of interesting posts were there.

> It is proving difficult to locate... today I am going through the archives for sites that include "will dockery"...

> https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/Will%20Dockery

Unfortunately, I begin to suspect that the Beat BBS has gone the way of the Topix Forums archives, erased.

General-Zod wrote:

> "Well, I may have found the gold here, but it is loading so slowly on this computer I can't tell. This list has gone from 1996 to 1998 so far but I still need 1999 to get to my writings posted on the list from Saint Augustine, if those were archived." --Will Dockery

> "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List":
> http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/doc/B-L-BIG/B-L-BIG-06-20190224a.htm

> Just found this and am exploring... quite interesting...

I suspect these archives are available or at least hope so

On Friday, September 15, 2023 at 5:30:15 PM UTC-4, General-Zod wrote:
>
> "Well, I may have found the gold here, but it is loading so slowly on this computer I can't tell. This list has gone from 1996 to 1998 so far but I still need 1999 to get to my writings posted on the list from Saint Augustine, if those were archived." --Will Dockery
>
>
> "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List":
> http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/doc/B-L-BIG/B-L-BIG-06-20190224a.htm
>
> Just found this and am exploring... quite interesting...

Speaking of Beat poetry, I'm looking forward to reading Alan Moore's "Illuminations"which includes the story of alternate universe Beat poet Harmon Belner and his epic poem "American Light":

https://comicon.com/2022/12/23/alan-moore-book-club-illuminations-american-light-an-appreciation/

Will Dockery wrote:

> On Friday, September 15, 2023 at 5:30:15 PM UTC-4, General-Zod wrote:
>>
>> "Well, I may have found the gold here, but it is loading so slowly on this computer I can't tell. This list has gone from 1996 to 1998 so far but I still need 1999 to get to my writings posted on the list from Saint Augustine, if those were archived." --Will Dockery
>>
>>
>> "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List":
>> http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/doc/B-L-BIG/B-L-BIG-06-20190224a.htm
>>
>> Just found this and am exploring... quite interesting...

> Speaking of Beat poetry, I'm looking forward to reading Alan Moore's "Illuminations"which includes the story of alternate universe Beat poet Harmon Belner and his epic poem "American Light":

> https://comicon.com/2022/12/23/alan-moore-book-club-illuminations-american-light-an-appreciation/

Wow...!

Looks fantastic....!

On Monday, October 2, 2023 at 1:19:07 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Friday, September 15, 2023 at 5:30:15 PM UTC-4, General-Zod wrote:
> >
> > "Well, I may have found the gold here, but it is loading so slowly on this computer I can't tell. This list has gone from 1996 to 1998 so far but I still need 1999 to get to my writings posted on the list from Saint Augustine, if those were archived." --Will Dockery
> >
> >
> > "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List":
> > http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/doc/B-L-BIG/B-L-BIG-06-20190224a.htm
> >
> > Just found this and am exploring... quite interesting...
> Speaking of Beat poetry, I'm looking forward to reading Alan Moore's "Illuminations"which includes the story of alternate universe Beat poet Harmon Belner and his epic poem "American Light":
>
> https://comicon.com/2022/12/23/alan-moore-book-club-illuminations-american-light-an-appreciation/

Quite fascinating indeed.....

************************ "The eighth story in Illuminations, “American Light: An Appreciation”, is twenty-seven pages long. It’s a challenging twenty-seven pages but well worth it. Perhaps the most unusual story in the collection so far, it borrows the forms of two genres, neither of them being ‘short story.’ This is a Beat poem in the vein of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl by a fictional and celebrated Beat contemporary, Harmon Belner by name. At the same time, the poem is a melancholy meditation on the life of the Beat literary movement, evoked through a walk through of associated San Francisco streets by the poem’s narrator using a system of ancient Egyptian mythological analogies to lend meaning to the narrator’s journey. The second form that is evoked is that of the academic essay through academic notations. At the bottom of each page, sometimes taking up more than half the page, are copious explanations and analytical deductions of the poem’s lines through the use of footnotes, written by one C. F. Bird....." *********************************

Faraway Star wrote:

> On Monday, October 2, 2023 at 1:19:07 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> On Friday, September 15, 2023 at 5:30:15 PM UTC-4, General-Zod wrote:
>> >
>> > "Well, I may have found the gold here, but it is loading so slowly on this computer I can't tell. This list has gone from 1996 to 1998 so far but I still need 1999 to get to my writings posted on the list from Saint Augustine, if those were archived." --Will Dockery
>> >
>> >
>> > "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List":
>> > http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/doc/B-L-BIG/B-L-BIG-06-20190224a.htm
>> >
>> > Just found this and am exploring... quite interesting...
>> Speaking of Beat poetry, I'm looking forward to reading Alan Moore's "Illuminations"which includes the story of alternate universe Beat poet Harmon Belner and his epic poem "American Light":
>>
>> https://comicon.com/2022/12/23/alan-moore-book-club-illuminations-american-light-an-appreciation/

> Quite fascinating indeed.....

> ************************ "The eighth story in Illuminations, “American Light: An Appreciation”, is twenty-seven pages long. It’s a challenging twenty-seven pages but well worth it. Perhaps the most unusual story in the collection so far, it borrows the forms of two genres, neither of them being ‘short story.’ This is a Beat poem in the vein of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl by a fictional and celebrated Beat contemporary, Harmon Belner by name. At the same time, the poem is a melancholy meditation on the life of the Beat literary movement, evoked through a walk through of associated San Francisco streets by the poem’s narrator using a system of ancient Egyptian mythological analogies to lend meaning to the narrator’s journey. The second form that is evoked is that of the academic essay through academic notations. At the bottom of each page, sometimes taking up more than half the page, are copious explanations and analytical deductions of the poem’s lines through the use of footnotes, written by one C. F. Bird....." *********************************

Absolutely, I hope to get a chance to read this one soon.

:)

On Monday, October 2, 2023 at 11:07:00 AM UTC-4, Faraway Star wrote:
> On Monday, October 2, 2023 at 1:19:07 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Friday, September 15, 2023 at 5:30:15 PM UTC-4, General-Zod wrote:
> > >
> > > "Well, I may have found the gold here, but it is loading so slowly on this computer I can't tell. This list has gone from 1996 to 1998 so far but I still need 1999 to get to my writings posted on the list from Saint Augustine, if those were archived." --Will Dockery
> > >
> > >
> > > "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List":
> > > http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/doc/B-L-BIG/B-L-BIG-06-20190224a.htm
> > >
> > > Just found this and am exploring... quite interesting...
> > Speaking of Beat poetry, I'm looking forward to reading Alan Moore's "Illuminations"which includes the story of alternate universe Beat poet Harmon Belner and his epic poem "American Light":
> >
> > https://comicon.com/2022/12/23/alan-moore-book-club-illuminations-american-light-an-appreciation/
> Quite fascinating indeed.....
>
> ************************ "The eighth story in Illuminations, “American Light: An Appreciation”, is twenty-seven pages long. It’s a challenging twenty-seven pages but well worth it. Perhaps the most unusual story in the collection so far, it borrows the forms of two genres, neither of them being ‘short story.’ This is a Beat poem in the vein of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl by a fictional and celebrated Beat contemporary, Harmon Belner by name. At the same time, the poem is a melancholy meditation on the life of the Beat literary movement, evoked through a walk through of associated San Francisco streets by the poem’s narrator using a system of ancient Egyptian mythological analogies to lend meaning to the narrator’s journey. The second form that is evoked is that of the academic essay through academic notations. At the bottom of each page, sometimes taking up more than half the page, are copious explanations and analytical deductions of the poem’s lines through the use of footnotes, written by one C. F. Bird....." *********************************

I found a copy today:

https://chattahoochee.polarislibrary.com/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&pos=1&cn=907288

***
Format:
Book
Author:
Moore, Alan, 1953- author.
Title:
Illuminations : stories / Alan Moore.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
©2022
Description:
456 pages ; 25 cm
Summary:
"In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a series of wildly different and equally unforgettable characters who discover--and in some cases even make and unmake--the various uncharted parts of existence. In "Hypothetical Lizard," two concubines in a brothel of fantastical specialists fall in love with tragic ramifications. In "Not Even Legend," a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of the other-worldly beings they seek to investigate. In "Illuminations," a nostalgic older man decides to visit a seaside resort from his youth and finds the past all too close at hand. And in the monumental novella "What We Can Know About Thunderman," which charts the surreal and Kafkaesque history of the comics industry's major players over the last seventy-five years, Moore reveals the dark, beating heart of the superhero business. From ghosts and otherworldly creatures to theoretical Boltzmann brains fashioning the universe at the big bang, Illuminations is exactly that--a series of bright, startling tales from a contemporary legend that reveal the full power of imagination and magic"--Dust jacket flap.
Contents:
Hypothetical lizard -- Not even legend -- Location, location, location -- Cold reading -- The improbably complex high-energy state -- Illuminations -- What we can know about Thunderman -- American light: an appreciation -- And, at the last, just to be done with silence.
Subjects:
Imaginary places -- Fiction.
Love -- Fiction.
Older men -- Fiction.
Comic books, strips, etc. -- Publishing -- Fiction.
Genre:
Fantasy fiction.
Fiction.
Paranormal fiction.
Science fiction.
Short stories.
Paranormal fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Short stories.
Science fiction.
ISBN:
9781635578805
1635578809

***

On Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at 5:51:12 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Monday, October 2, 2023 at 11:07:00 AM UTC-4, Faraway Star wrote:
> > On Monday, October 2, 2023 at 1:19:07 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > On Friday, September 15, 2023 at 5:30:15 PM UTC-4, General-Zod wrote:
>
> > > > "Well, I may have found the gold here, but it is loading so slowly on this computer I can't tell. This list has gone from 1996 to 1998 so far but I still need 1999 to get to my writings posted on the list from Saint Augustine, if those were archived." --Will Dockery
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List":
> > > > http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/doc/B-L-BIG/B-L-BIG-06-20190224a.htm
> > > >
> > > > Just found this and am exploring... quite interesting...
> > > Speaking of Beat poetry, I'm looking forward to reading Alan Moore's "Illuminations"which includes the story of alternate universe Beat poet Harmon Belner and his epic poem "American Light":
> > >
> > > https://comicon.com/2022/12/23/alan-moore-book-club-illuminations-american-light-an-appreciation/
> > Quite fascinating indeed.....
> >
> > ************************ "The eighth story in Illuminations, “American Light: An Appreciation”, is twenty-seven pages long. It’s a challenging twenty-seven pages but well worth it. Perhaps the most unusual story in the collection so far, it borrows the forms of two genres, neither of them being ‘short story.’ This is a Beat poem in the vein of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl by a fictional and celebrated Beat contemporary, Harmon Belner by name. At the same time, the poem is a melancholy meditation on the life of the Beat literary movement, evoked through a walk through of associated San Francisco streets by the poem’s narrator using a system of ancient Egyptian mythological analogies to lend meaning to the narrator’s journey. The second form that is evoked is that of the academic essay through academic notations. At the bottom of each page, sometimes taking up more than half the page, are copious explanations and analytical deductions of the poem’s lines through the use of footnotes, written by one C. F. Bird....." *********************************
> I found a copy today:
>
> https://chattahoochee.polarislibrary.com/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&pos=1&cn=907288
>
> ***
> Format:
> Book
> Author:
> Moore, Alan, 1953- author.
> Title:
> Illuminations : stories / Alan Moore.
> Publisher, Date:
> New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
> ©2022
> Description:
> 456 pages ; 25 cm
> Summary:
> "In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a series of wildly different and equally unforgettable characters who discover--and in some cases even make and unmake--the various uncharted parts of existence. In "Hypothetical Lizard," two concubines in a brothel of fantastical specialists fall in love with tragic ramifications. In "Not Even Legend," a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of the other-worldly beings they seek to investigate. In "Illuminations," a nostalgic older man decides to visit a seaside resort from his youth and finds the past all too close at hand. And in the monumental novella "What We Can Know About Thunderman," which charts the surreal and Kafkaesque history of the comics industry's major players over the last seventy-five years, Moore reveals the dark, beating heart of the superhero business. From ghosts and otherworldly creatures to theoretical Boltzmann brains fashioning the universe at the big bang, Illuminations is exactly that--a series of bright, startling tales from a contemporary legend that reveal the full power of imagination and magic"--Dust jacket flap.
> Contents:
> Hypothetical lizard -- Not even legend -- Location, location, location -- Cold reading -- The improbably complex high-energy state -- Illuminations -- What we can know about Thunderman -- American light: an appreciation -- And, at the last, just to be done with silence.
> Subjects:
> Imaginary places -- Fiction.
> Love -- Fiction.
> Older men -- Fiction.
> Comic books, strips, etc. -- Publishing -- Fiction.
> Genre:
> Fantasy fiction.
> Fiction.
> Paranormal fiction.
> Science fiction.
> Short stories.
> Paranormal fiction.
> Fantasy fiction.
> Short stories.
> Science fiction.
> ISBN:
> 9781635578805
> 1635578809
>
> ***

Is it a pretty good read..?

On Wednesday, October 4, 2023 at 3:51:53 PM UTC-4, Faraway Star wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at 5:51:12 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Monday, October 2, 2023 at 11:07:00 AM UTC-4, Faraway Star wrote:
> > > On Monday, October 2, 2023 at 1:19:07 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > On Friday, September 15, 2023 at 5:30:15 PM UTC-4, General-Zod wrote:
> >
> > > > > "Well, I may have found the gold here, but it is loading so slowly on this computer I can't tell. This list has gone from 1996 to 1998 so far but I still need 1999 to get to my writings posted on the list from Saint Augustine, if those were archived." --Will Dockery
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List":
> > > > > http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/doc/B-L-BIG/B-L-BIG-06-20190224a..htm
> > > > >
> > > > > Just found this and am exploring... quite interesting...
> > > > Speaking of Beat poetry, I'm looking forward to reading Alan Moore's "Illuminations"which includes the story of alternate universe Beat poet Harmon Belner and his epic poem "American Light":
> > > >
> > > > https://comicon.com/2022/12/23/alan-moore-book-club-illuminations-american-light-an-appreciation/
> > > Quite fascinating indeed.....
> > >
> > > ************************ "The eighth story in Illuminations, “American Light: An Appreciation”, is twenty-seven pages long. It’s a challenging twenty-seven pages but well worth it. Perhaps the most unusual story in the collection so far, it borrows the forms of two genres, neither of them being ‘short story.’ This is a Beat poem in the vein of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl by a fictional and celebrated Beat contemporary, Harmon Belner by name. At the same time, the poem is a melancholy meditation on the life of the Beat literary movement, evoked through a walk through of associated San Francisco streets by the poem’s narrator using a system of ancient Egyptian mythological analogies to lend meaning to the narrator’s journey. The second form that is evoked is that of the academic essay through academic notations. At the bottom of each page, sometimes taking up more than half the page, are copious explanations and analytical deductions of the poem’s lines through the use of footnotes, written by one C. F. Bird....." *********************************
> > I found a copy today:
> >
> > https://chattahoochee.polarislibrary.com/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&pos=1&cn=907288
> >
> > ***
> > Format:
> > Book
> > Author:
> > Moore, Alan, 1953- author.
> > Title:
> > Illuminations : stories / Alan Moore.
> > Publisher, Date:
> > New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
> > ©2022
> > Description:
> > 456 pages ; 25 cm
> > Summary:
> > "In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a series of wildly different and equally unforgettable characters who discover--and in some cases even make and unmake--the various uncharted parts of existence. In "Hypothetical Lizard," two concubines in a brothel of fantastical specialists fall in love with tragic ramifications. In "Not Even Legend," a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of the other-worldly beings they seek to investigate. In "Illuminations," a nostalgic older man decides to visit a seaside resort from his youth and finds the past all too close at hand. And in the monumental novella "What We Can Know About Thunderman," which charts the surreal and Kafkaesque history of the comics industry's major players over the last seventy-five years, Moore reveals the dark, beating heart of the superhero business. From ghosts and otherworldly creatures to theoretical Boltzmann brains fashioning the universe at the big bang, Illuminations is exactly that--a series of bright, startling tales from a contemporary legend that reveal the full power of imagination and magic"--Dust jacket flap.
> > Contents:
> > Hypothetical lizard -- Not even legend -- Location, location, location -- Cold reading -- The improbably complex high-energy state -- Illuminations -- What we can know about Thunderman -- American light: an appreciation -- And, at the last, just to be done with silence.
> > Subjects:
> > Imaginary places -- Fiction.
> > Love -- Fiction.
> > Older men -- Fiction.
> > Comic books, strips, etc. -- Publishing -- Fiction.
> > Genre:
> > Fantasy fiction.
> > Fiction.
> > Paranormal fiction.
> > Science fiction.
> > Short stories.
> > Paranormal fiction.
> > Fantasy fiction.
> > Short stories.
> > Science fiction.
> > ISBN:
> > 9781635578805
> > 1635578809
> >
> > ***
> Is it a pretty good read..?

Psst... Gummy George... Donkeys can't read.

He does, however, think it has pretty good pictures.

Michael Pendragon
"As you probably know, I have written some songs directly into the microphone as the tape rolled."
-- Will Donkery on his… unique… style of composition.

On Wednesday, October 4, 2023 at 3:51:53 PM UTC-4, Faraway Star wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at 5:51:12 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Monday, October 2, 2023 at 11:07:00 AM UTC-4, Faraway Star wrote:
> > > On Monday, October 2, 2023 at 1:19:07 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > On Friday, September 15, 2023 at 5:30:15 PM UTC-4, General-Zod wrote:
> >
> > > > > "Well, I may have found the gold here, but it is loading so slowly on this computer I can't tell. This list has gone from 1996 to 1998 so far but I still need 1999 to get to my writings posted on the list from Saint Augustine, if those were archived." --Will Dockery
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List":
> > > > > http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/doc/B-L-BIG/B-L-BIG-06-20190224a..htm
> > > > >
> > > > > Just found this and am exploring... quite interesting...
> > > > Speaking of Beat poetry, I'm looking forward to reading Alan Moore's "Illuminations"which includes the story of alternate universe Beat poet Harmon Belner and his epic poem "American Light":
> > > >
> > > > https://comicon.com/2022/12/23/alan-moore-book-club-illuminations-american-light-an-appreciation/
> > > Quite fascinating indeed.....
> > >
> > > ************************ "The eighth story in Illuminations, “American Light: An Appreciation”, is twenty-seven pages long. It’s a challenging twenty-seven pages but well worth it. Perhaps the most unusual story in the collection so far, it borrows the forms of two genres, neither of them being ‘short story.’ This is a Beat poem in the vein of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl by a fictional and celebrated Beat contemporary, Harmon Belner by name. At the same time, the poem is a melancholy meditation on the life of the Beat literary movement, evoked through a walk through of associated San Francisco streets by the poem’s narrator using a system of ancient Egyptian mythological analogies to lend meaning to the narrator’s journey. The second form that is evoked is that of the academic essay through academic notations. At the bottom of each page, sometimes taking up more than half the page, are copious explanations and analytical deductions of the poem’s lines through the use of footnotes, written by one C. F. Bird....." *********************************
> > I found a copy today:
> >
> > https://chattahoochee.polarislibrary.com/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&pos=1&cn=907288
> >
> > ***
> > Format:
> > Book
> > Author:
> > Moore, Alan, 1953- author.
> > Title:
> > Illuminations : stories / Alan Moore.
> > Publisher, Date:
> > New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
> > ©2022
> > Description:
> > 456 pages ; 25 cm
> > Summary:
> > "In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a series of wildly different and equally unforgettable characters who discover--and in some cases even make and unmake--the various uncharted parts of existence. In "Hypothetical Lizard," two concubines in a brothel of fantastical specialists fall in love with tragic ramifications. In "Not Even Legend," a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of the other-worldly beings they seek to investigate. In "Illuminations," a nostalgic older man decides to visit a seaside resort from his youth and finds the past all too close at hand. And in the monumental novella "What We Can Know About Thunderman," which charts the surreal and Kafkaesque history of the comics industry's major players over the last seventy-five years, Moore reveals the dark, beating heart of the superhero business. From ghosts and otherworldly creatures to theoretical Boltzmann brains fashioning the universe at the big bang, Illuminations is exactly that--a series of bright, startling tales from a contemporary legend that reveal the full power of imagination and magic"--Dust jacket flap.
> > Contents:
> > Hypothetical lizard -- Not even legend -- Location, location, location -- Cold reading -- The improbably complex high-energy state -- Illuminations -- What we can know about Thunderman -- American light: an appreciation -- And, at the last, just to be done with silence.
> > Subjects:
> > Imaginary places -- Fiction.
> > Love -- Fiction.
> > Older men -- Fiction.
> > Comic books, strips, etc. -- Publishing -- Fiction.
> > Genre:
> > Fantasy fiction.
> > Fiction.
> > Paranormal fiction.
> > Science fiction.
> > Short stories.
> > Paranormal fiction.
> > Fantasy fiction.
> > Short stories.
> > Science fiction.
> > ISBN:
> > 9781635578805
> > 1635578809
> >
> > ***
> Is it a pretty good read..?

Got a copy of this book yesterday, excellent, a real page turner, and Alan Moore is such a visual writer that the reader can build the scene in his mind's eye.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/105463832836304/permalink/6712694075446547/?mibextid=Nif5oz

Faraway Star wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at 5:51:12 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Monday, October 2, 2023 at 11:07:00 AM UTC-4, Faraway Star wrote:
> > > On Monday, October 2, 2023 at 1:19:07 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > >> On Friday, September 15, 2023 at 5:30:15 PM UTC-4, General-Zod wrote:
>
> > > > > > "Well, I may have found the gold here, but it is loading so slowly on this computer I can't tell. This list has gone from 1996 to 1998 so far but I still need 1999 to get to my writings posted on the list from Saint Augustine, if those were archived." --Will Dockery
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List":
> > > > > > http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/doc/B-L-BIG/B-L-BIG-06-20190224a.htm
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Just found this and am exploring... quite interesting...
> > > > > Speaking of Beat poetry, I'm looking forward to reading Alan Moore's "Illuminations"which includes the story of alternate universe Beat poet Harmon Belner and his epic poem "American Light":
> > > > >
> > > > > https://comicon.com/2022/12/23/alan-moore-book-club-illuminations-american-light-an-appreciation/
> > > > Quite fascinating indeed.....
> > > >
> > > > ************************ "The eighth story in Illuminations, “American Light: An Appreciation”, is twenty-seven pages long. It’s a challenging twenty-seven pages but well worth it. Perhaps the most unusual story in the collection so far, it borrows the forms of two genres, neither of them being ‘short story.’ This is a Beat poem in the vein of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl by a fictional and celebrated Beat contemporary, Harmon Belner by name. At the same time, the poem is a melancholy meditation on the life of the Beat literary movement, evoked through a walk through of associated San Francisco streets by the poem’s narrator using a system of ancient Egyptian mythological analogies to lend meaning to the narrator’s journey. The second form that is evoked is that of the academic essay through academic notations. At the bottom of each page, sometimes taking up more than half the page, are copious explanations and analytical deductions of the poem’s lines through the use of footnotes, written by one C. F. Bird....." *********************************
> > > I found a copy today:
> > >
> > > https://chattahoochee.polarislibrary.com/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&pos=1&cn=907288
> > >
> > > ***
> > > Format:
> > > Book
> > > Author:
> > > Moore, Alan, 1953- author.
> > > Title:
> > > Illuminations : stories / Alan Moore.
> > > Publisher, Date:
> > > New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
> > > ©2022
> > > Description:
> > > 456 pages ; 25 cm
> > > Summary:
> > > "In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a series of wildly different and equally unforgettable characters who discover--and in some cases even make and unmake--the various uncharted parts of existence. In "Hypothetical Lizard," two concubines in a brothel of fantastical specialists fall in love with tragic ramifications. In "Not Even Legend," a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of the other-worldly beings they seek to investigate. In "Illuminations," a nostalgic older man decides to visit a seaside resort from his youth and finds the past all too close at hand. And in the monumental novella "What We Can Know About Thunderman," which charts the surreal and Kafkaesque history of the comics industry's major players over the last seventy-five years, Moore reveals the dark, beating heart of the superhero business. From ghosts and otherworldly creatures to theoretical Boltzmann brains fashioning the universe at the big bang, Illuminations is exactly that--a series of bright, startling tales from a contemporary legend that reveal the full power of imagination and magic"--Dust jacket flap.
> > > Contents:
> > > Hypothetical lizard -- Not even legend -- Location, location, location -- Cold reading -- The improbably complex high-energy state -- Illuminations -- What we can know about Thunderman -- American light: an appreciation -- And, at the last, just to be done with silence.
> > > Subjects:
> > > Imaginary places -- Fiction.
> > > Love -- Fiction.
> > > Older men -- Fiction.
> > > Comic books, strips, etc. -- Publishing -- Fiction.
> > > Genre:
> > > Fantasy fiction.
> > > Fiction.
> > > Paranormal fiction.
> > > Science fiction.
> > > Short stories.
> > > Paranormal fiction.
> > > Fantasy fiction.
> > > Short stories.
> > > Science fiction.
> > > ISBN:
> > > 9781635578805
> > > 1635578809
> > >
> > > ***
>
> Is it a pretty good read..?

Got a copy of this book yesterday, excellent, a real page turner, and Alan Moore is such a visual writer that the reader can build the scene in his mind's eye.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/105463832836304/permalink/6712694075446547/?mibextid=Nif5oz

The opening scene, set in 1959
I swear it was like being in Jacob's Drug Store again.

Will Dockery wrote:
> Faraway Star wrote:
>> On Monday, October 2, 2023 at 1:19:07 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> >> On Friday, September 15, 2023 at 5:30:15 PM UTC-4, General-Zod wrote:
>
> > > > > > > "Well, I may have found the gold here, but it is loading so slowly on this computer I can't tell. This list has gone from 1996 to 1998 so far but I still need 1999 to get to my writings posted on the list from Saint Augustine, if those were archived." --Will Dockery
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List":
> > > > > > > http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/doc/B-L-BIG/B-L-BIG-06-20190224a.htm
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Just found this and am exploring... quite interesting...
> > > > > > Speaking of Beat poetry, I'm looking forward to reading Alan Moore's "Illuminations"which includes the story of alternate universe Beat poet Harmon Belner and his epic poem "American Light":
> > > > > >
> > > > > > https://comicon.com/2022/12/23/alan-moore-book-club-illuminations-american-light-an-appreciation/
> > > > > Quite fascinating indeed.....
> > > > >
> > > > > ************************ "The eighth story in Illuminations, “American Light: An Appreciation”, is twenty-seven pages long. It’s a challenging twenty-seven pages but well worth it. Perhaps the most unusual story in the collection so far, it borrows the forms of two genres, neither of them being ‘short story.’ This is a Beat poem in the vein of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl by a fictional and celebrated Beat contemporary, Harmon Belner by name. At the same time, the poem is a melancholy meditation on the life of the Beat literary movement, evoked through a walk through of associated San Francisco streets by the poem’s narrator using a system of ancient Egyptian mythological analogies to lend meaning to the narrator’s journey. The second form that is evoked is that of the academic essay through academic notations. At the bottom of each page, sometimes taking up more than half the page, are copious explanations and analytical deductions of the poem’s lines through the use of footnotes, written by one C. F. Bird....." *********************************
> > > > I found a copy today:
> > > >
> > > > https://chattahoochee.polarislibrary.com/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&pos=1&cn=907288
> > > >
> > > > ***
> > > > Format:
> > > > Book
> > > > Author:
> > > > Moore, Alan, 1953- author.
> > > > Title:
> > > > Illuminations : stories / Alan Moore.
> > > > Publisher, Date:
> > > > New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
> > > > ©2022
> > > > Description:
> > > > 456 pages ; 25 cm
> > > > Summary:
> > > > "In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a series of wildly different and equally unforgettable characters who discover--and in some cases even make and unmake--the various uncharted parts of existence. In "Hypothetical Lizard," two concubines in a brothel of fantastical specialists fall in love with tragic ramifications. In "Not Even Legend," a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of the other-worldly beings they seek to investigate. In "Illuminations," a nostalgic older man decides to visit a seaside resort from his youth and finds the past all too close at hand. And in the monumental novella "What We Can Know About Thunderman," which charts the surreal and Kafkaesque history of the comics industry's major players over the last seventy-five years, Moore reveals the dark, beating heart of the superhero business. From ghosts and otherworldly creatures to theoretical Boltzmann brains fashioning the universe at the big bang, Illuminations is exactly that--a series of bright, startling tales from a contemporary legend that reveal the full power of imagination and magic"--Dust jacket flap.
> > > > Contents:
> > > > Hypothetical lizard -- Not even legend -- Location, location, location -- Cold reading -- The improbably complex high-energy state -- Illuminations -- What we can know about Thunderman -- American light: an appreciation -- And, at the last, just to be done with silence.
> > > > Subjects:
> > > > Imaginary places -- Fiction.
> > > > Love -- Fiction.
> > > > Older men -- Fiction.
> > > > Comic books, strips, etc. -- Publishing -- Fiction.
> > > > Genre:
> > > > Fantasy fiction.
> > > > Fiction.
> > > > Paranormal fiction.
> > > > Science fiction.
> > > > Short stories.
> > > > Paranormal fiction.
> > > > Fantasy fiction.
> > > > Short stories.
> > > > Science fiction.
> > > > ISBN:
> > > > 9781635578805
> > > > 1635578809
> > > >
> > > > ***
> >
> > Is it a pretty good read..?
>
> Got a copy of this book yesterday, excellent, a real page turner, and Alan Moore is such a visual writer that the reader can build the scene in his mind's eye.
>
> https://m.facebook.com/groups/105463832836304/permalink/6712694075446547/?mibextid=Nif5oz
> The opening scene, set in 1959
> I swear it was like being in Jacob's Drug Store again.

Quite interesting.

In the brand new interview with Alan Moore in Screen Rant, Moore reveals Harmon Belner is in this photo,

https://www.facebook.com/groups/105463832836304/permalink/6730790193636935/?mibextid=Nif5oz

"his hair part and ear" right behind Richard Braitigan in the white hat:

https://screenrant.com/alan-moore-interview-illuminations-jerusalem-superheroes-part-2/

Will Dockery wrote:
<...>

Alan Moore is helping chronicle the more obscure Beat poets:

*************** Alan Moore: It came about because I’ve been interested in the Beats for a number of years, particularly over these last few years where I’ve been a recipient of – over here we’ve got a splendid, heroic gentleman called Kevin Ring, who publishes a thing called Beat Scene, and he’s been publishing it since the 1980s. The love of the Beat scene is alive and well over in England. So, I’ve been absorbing all of these fascinating articles about not only the Beats that everybody knows about and remembers, but all of the other ones who’ve been forgotten or neglected because everyone tends to think, ‘yeah the beat writers, that’s Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs..’ Even giants like Ferlinghetti can get squeezed out, let alone people like Lew Welch or Kirby Doyle. [Doyle’s] book Happiness Bastard, it’s brilliant. It’s the only novel he wrote, but he was a Beat poet and a very good one. Very funny. ******************

I will need to investigate Kirby Doyle at greater length.....

> In the brand new interview with Alan Moore in Screen Rant, Moore reveals Harmon Belner is in this photo,
>
>
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/105463832836304/permalink/6730790193636935/?mibextid=Nif5oz
>
> "his hair part and ear" right behind Richard Braitigan in the white hat:
>
> https://screenrant.com/alan-moore-interview-illuminations-jerusalem-superheroes-part-2/

Oh very cool, A.M. says:

************ Alan Moore: "But at the same time, if you do actually look up the iconic cover of City Lights Journal Number 3, where you’ve got a bunch of leading Beat figures standing outside City Lights Bookshop with Larry Ferlinghetti opening an umbrella, you will see between the actor and comedian Gary Goodrow, and the white Stetson-hatted Richard Brautigan, you will see the left ear and left side-parting of Harmon Belner.?’ **************

On Monday, October 2, 2023 at 1:19:07 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Friday, September 15, 2023 at 5:30:15 PM UTC-4, General-Zod wrote:
> >
> > "Well, I may have found the gold here, but it is loading so slowly on this computer I can't tell. This list has gone from 1996 to 1998 so far but I still need 1999 to get to my writings posted on the list from Saint Augustine, if those were archived." --Will Dockery
> >
> >
> > "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List":
> > http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/doc/B-L-BIG/B-L-BIG-06-20190224a.htm
> >
> > Just found this and am exploring... quite interesting...
> Speaking of Beat poetry, I'm looking forward to reading Alan Moore's "Illuminations"which includes the story of alternate universe Beat poet Harmon Belner and his epic poem "American Light":
>
> https://comicon.com/2022/12/23/alan-moore-book-club-illuminations-american-light-an-appreciation/

Dog gone good Beat related work I gather:

*********************************************

https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/02/review-illuminations-stories/

" “American Light: An Appreciation”. It’s poetry, from the 1960’s, and also a very in-depth literary essay which takes place within the confines of eighty six footnotes. Alan Moore invented an acclaimed poet by the name of Harmon Belner and then wrote Belner’s masterwork, the 22-page (with 86-footnotes) poem that strolls through a day in the real-life 1960’s San Francisco. The poem is full of energy, indulgences, pain and beauty. The literary criticism explains point-by-point what every metaphor means, a work of love that picks apart the magic but also wryly points out some of the very problematic elements of the shining stars of the Beat Generation. ...."

**********************************************

On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 4:49:03 PM UTC-4, Faraway Star wrote:
> On Monday, October 2, 2023 at 1:19:07 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Friday, September 15, 2023 at 5:30:15 PM UTC-4, General-Zod wrote:
> > >
> > > "Well, I may have found the gold here, but it is loading so slowly on this computer I can't tell. This list has gone from 1996 to 1998 so far but I still need 1999 to get to my writings posted on the list from Saint Augustine, if those were archived." --Will Dockery
> > >
> > >
> > > "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List":
> > > http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/doc/B-L-BIG/B-L-BIG-06-20190224a.htm
> > >
> > > Just found this and am exploring... quite interesting...
> > Speaking of Beat poetry, I'm looking forward to reading Alan Moore's "Illuminations"which includes the story of alternate universe Beat poet Harmon Belner and his epic poem "American Light":
> >
> > https://comicon.com/2022/12/23/alan-moore-book-club-illuminations-american-light-an-appreciation/
> Dog gone good Beat related work I gather:
>
> *********************************************
>
> https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/02/review-illuminations-stories/
>
> " “American Light: An Appreciation”. It’s poetry, from the 1960’s, and also a very in-depth literary essay which takes place within the confines of eighty six footnotes. Alan Moore invented an acclaimed poet by the name of Harmon Belner and then wrote Belner’s masterwork, the 22-page (with 86-footnotes) poem that strolls through a day in the real-life 1960’s San Francisco. The poem is full of energy, indulgences, pain and beauty. The literary criticism explains point-by-point what every metaphor means, a work of love that picks apart the magic but also wryly points out some of the very problematic elements of the shining stars of the Beat Generation. ...."
>
> **********************************************

Good find, Faraway Star.

🙂

On Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 3:08:54 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 4:49:03 PM UTC-4, Faraway Star wrote:
>
> > > > "Well, I may have found the gold here, but it is loading so slowly on this computer I can't tell. This list has gone from 1996 to 1998 so far but I still need 1999 to get to my writings posted on the list from Saint Augustine, if those were archived." --Will Dockery
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List":
> > > > http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/doc/B-L-BIG/B-L-BIG-06-20190224a.htm
> > > >
> > > > Just found this and am exploring... quite interesting...
> > > Speaking of Beat poetry, I'm looking forward to reading Alan Moore's "Illuminations"which includes the story of alternate universe Beat poet Harmon Belner and his epic poem "American Light":
> > >
> > > https://comicon.com/2022/12/23/alan-moore-book-club-illuminations-american-light-an-appreciation/
> > Dog gone good Beat related work I gather:
> >
> > *********************************************
> >
> > https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/02/review-illuminations-stories/
> >
> > " “American Light: An Appreciation”. It’s poetry, from the 1960’s, and also a very in-depth literary essay which takes place within the confines of eighty six footnotes. Alan Moore invented an acclaimed poet by the name of Harmon Belner and then wrote Belner’s masterwork, the 22-page (with 86-footnotes) poem that strolls through a day in the real-life 1960’s San Francisco. The poem is full of energy, indulgences, pain and beauty. The literary criticism explains point-by-point what every metaphor means, a work of love that picks apart the magic but also wryly points out some of the very problematic elements of the shining stars of the Beat Generation. ...."
> >
> > **********************************************
> Good find, Faraway Star.

I THNX you....

Faraway Star wrote:

> On Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 3:08:54 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 4:49:03 PM UTC-4, Faraway Star wrote:
>>
>> > > > "Well, I may have found the gold here, but it is loading so slowly on this computer I can't tell. This list has gone from 1996 to 1998 so far but I still need 1999 to get to my writings posted on the list from Saint Augustine, if those were archived." --Will Dockery
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List":
>> > > > http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/doc/B-L-BIG/B-L-BIG-06-20190224a.htm
>> > > >
>> > > > Just found this and am exploring... quite interesting...
>> > > Speaking of Beat poetry, I'm looking forward to reading Alan Moore's "Illuminations"which includes the story of alternate universe Beat poet Harmon Belner and his epic poem "American Light":
>> > >
>> > > https://comicon.com/2022/12/23/alan-moore-book-club-illuminations-american-light-an-appreciation/
>> > Dog gone good Beat related work I gather:
>> >
>> > *********************************************
>> >
>> > https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/02/review-illuminations-stories/
>> >
>> > " “American Light: An Appreciation”. It’s poetry, from the 1960’s, and also a very in-depth literary essay which takes place within the confines of eighty six footnotes. Alan Moore invented an acclaimed poet by the name of Harmon Belner and then wrote Belner’s masterwork, the 22-page (with 86-footnotes) poem that strolls through a day in the real-life 1960’s San Francisco. The poem is full of energy, indulgences, pain and beauty. The literary criticism explains point-by-point what every metaphor means, a work of love that picks apart the magic but also wryly points out some of the very problematic elements of the shining stars of the Beat Generation. ...."
>> >
>> > **********************************************
>> Good find, Faraway Star.

> I THNX you....

Good evening my friend, great book from Alan Moore.

On Thursday, October 12, 2023 at 7:17:58 PM UTC-4, Faraway Star wrote:
> On Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 3:08:54 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 4:49:03 PM UTC-4, Faraway Star wrote:
> >
> > > > > "Well, I may have found the gold here, but it is loading so slowly on this computer I can't tell. This list has gone from 1996 to 1998 so far but I still need 1999 to get to my writings posted on the list from Saint Augustine, if those were archived." --Will Dockery
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List":
> > > > > http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/doc/B-L-BIG/B-L-BIG-06-20190224a..htm
> > > > >
> > > > > Just found this and am exploring... quite interesting...
> > > > Speaking of Beat poetry, I'm looking forward to reading Alan Moore's "Illuminations"which includes the story of alternate universe Beat poet Harmon Belner and his epic poem "American Light":
> > > >
> > > > https://comicon.com/2022/12/23/alan-moore-book-club-illuminations-american-light-an-appreciation/
> > > Dog gone good Beat related work I gather:
> > >
> > > *********************************************
> > >
> > > https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/02/review-illuminations-stories/
> > >
> > > " “American Light: An Appreciation”. It’s poetry, from the 1960’s, and also a very in-depth literary essay which takes place within the confines of eighty six footnotes. Alan Moore invented an acclaimed poet by the name of Harmon Belner and then wrote Belner’s masterwork, the 22-page (with 86-footnotes) poem that strolls through a day in the real-life 1960’s San Francisco. The poem is full of energy, indulgences, pain and beauty. The literary criticism explains point-by-point what every metaphor means, a work of love that picks apart the magic but also wryly points out some of the very problematic elements of the shining stars of the Beat Generation. ...."
> > >
> > > **********************************************
> > Good find, Faraway Star.
> I THNX you....

Interesting review of Alan Moore's book from Portugal:

https://marcenarialiteraria.art.blog/2023/03/11/resenha-14-iluminacoes-de-alan-moore/

Faraway Star wrote:
> On Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 3:08:54 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 4:49:03 PM UTC-4, Faraway Star wrote:
>
> > > > > > "Well, I may have found the gold here, but it is loading so slowly on this computer I can't tell. This list has gone from 1996 to 1998 so far but I still need 1999 to get to my writings posted on the list from Saint Augustine, if those were archived." --Will Dockery
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List":
> > > > > > http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/doc/B-L-BIG/B-L-BIG-06-20190224a.htm
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Just found this and am exploring... quite interesting...
> > > > > Speaking of Beat poetry, I'm looking forward to reading Alan Moore's "Illuminations"which includes the story of alternate universe Beat poet Harmon Belner and his epic poem "American Light":
> > > > >
> > > > > https://comicon.com/2022/12/23/alan-moore-book-club-illuminations-american-light-an-appreciation/
> > > > Dog gone good Beat related work I gather:
> > > >
> > > > *********************************************
> > > >
> > > > https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/02/review-illuminations-stories/
> > > >
> > > > " “American Light: An Appreciation”. It’s poetry, from the 1960’s, and also a very in-depth literary essay which takes place within the confines of eighty six footnotes. Alan Moore invented an acclaimed poet by the name of Harmon Belner and then wrote Belner’s masterwork, the 22-page (with 86-footnotes) poem that strolls through a day in the real-life 1960’s San Francisco. The poem is full of energy, indulgences, pain and beauty. The literary criticism explains point-by-point what every metaphor means, a work of love that picks apart the magic but also wryly points out some of the very problematic elements of the shining stars of the Beat Generation. ...."
> > > >
> > > > **********************************************
>
> > Good find, Faraway Star.
>
> I THNX you....

Interesting reviews of Alan Moore's book from Portugal:

https://marcenarialiteraria.art.blog/2023/03/11/resenha-14-iluminacoes-de-alan-moore/

https://locusmag.com/2022/12/paul-di-filippo-reviews-illuminations-stories-by-alan-moore/

On Monday, October 16, 2023 at 1:17:54 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> Faraway Star wrote:
> > On Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 3:08:54 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > On Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 4:49:03 PM UTC-4, Faraway Star wrote:
>
> > > > > > > "Well, I may have found the gold here, but it is loading so slowly on this computer I can't tell. This list has gone from 1996 to 1998 so far but I still need 1999 to get to my writings posted on the list from Saint Augustine, if those were archived." --Will Dockery
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List":
> > > > > > > http://www.beatsupernovarasa.com/doc/B-L-BIG/B-L-BIG-06-20190224a.htm
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Just found this and am exploring... quite interesting...
> > > > > > Speaking of Beat poetry, I'm looking forward to reading Alan Moore's "Illuminations"which includes the story of alternate universe Beat poet Harmon Belner and his epic poem "American Light":
> > > > > >
> > > > > > https://comicon.com/2022/12/23/alan-moore-book-club-illuminations-american-light-an-appreciation/
> > > > > Dog gone good Beat related work I gather:
> > > > >
> > > > > *********************************************
> > > > >
> > > > > https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/02/review-illuminations-stories/
> > > > >
> > > > > " “American Light: An Appreciation”. It’s poetry, from the 1960’s, and also a very in-depth literary essay which takes place within the confines of eighty six footnotes. Alan Moore invented an acclaimed poet by the name of Harmon Belner and then wrote Belner’s masterwork, the 22-page (with 86-footnotes) poem that strolls through a day in the real-life 1960’s San Francisco. The poem is full of energy, indulgences, pain and beauty. The literary criticism explains point-by-point what every metaphor means, a work of love that picks apart the magic but also wryly points out some of the very problematic elements of the shining stars of the Beat Generation. ...."
> > > > >
> > > > > **********************************************
> >
> > > Good find, Faraway Star.
> >
> > I THNX you....
> Interesting reviews of Alan Moore's book from Portugal:
>
> https://marcenarialiteraria.art.blog/2023/03/11/resenha-14-iluminacoes-de-alan-moore/
>
> https://locusmag.com/2022/12/paul-di-filippo-reviews-illuminations-stories-by-alan-moore/

Quite interesting reading...