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Novels
From
C2R:
The Big Boom Theory
2000-2004:107000 words
A surrealist study of tourism, conservation and development
amidst communes of Israeli and European expatriate communities who
hide in hamlets in certain taboo hobbitesque valleys of the western
Indian Himalaya. It is based on three gonzo anthropology trips in the
area in 2000 and 2003 and the logical extension of recording an album
of experimental music with a Swiss mystic who whiles away the days
in a remote village that suffers as the construction site of the second
largest dam in India where escalating mafia wars between local dons
and underground overlanders on the run from the law ensure that they
have lost themselves one-and-all in a paradise lost.
Following
Footsteps
To See the Source:
Don't Look Back
2003-2006:320000 words
Picking up on the above themes and issues, this novel
is an account of pilgrimage, conservation and development as
viddied over a 6 month solo journey I took, following the Ganges from
its Himalayan source on the border with Tibet to where it meets the
sea in the Bay of Bengal. Being one of the great
rivers of the world, as dug by the likes of Pythagoras thru Alexander
the (not so) Great, Nehru and nearupon near every soul bent on some
understanding of the all too terrible and great world, the novel investigates
tensions of sustainability amidst unsustainable human pressures.
What follows is a wild form foray of traveling along its length, hanging
with people from all walks of life (politicians, polluters, crusaders,
contributors, artists, activists, anarchists, scholars, saints, scoundrels, sadhus,
sannyassis, sages, seers, swagmen, madmen, mystics, and mendicants...)
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1999-2007:140000 words

Essays (if you are into indymedia in
india)
...the following (soon 2B posted) essays form part of the set of the
backdrop near the backstage part of the background to the subjects
of C2R+2CtheSource+come20. The novels are experimental in form+content,
being composed in a wild form rendition of stream-of-conciousness/spontaneous
prose rantings, ravings and droolings. But they're not all word-play/games-for-may:
the essays on Indian anthropology, history, politics, and on Hindu+Buddist
theology, mythology and philosophy, were me sergent Major Mori's for
undergrad majors in Anthropology and Philosophy at Sydney University.
Rantings (raving and
drooling)
...are tidbits of miscellenia relating to manguage (mangled
language)...
...for the time being they're embedded in aural explorations
in psychaedelicatessen, but to follow soon will be spoken word renditions
of 'word-paintings' and extracts from word-plays/games-for-may where
sentiments such as
"it
goes without saying",
"words fail me" and
"away
with words"
will be voiced...
ver
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