![]() ![]() Not only from this book, but from any of his works, most especially Abyssinia and The Acephalic Imperial). I should love to encounter nothing but Murphy's characters in my travels. Whatever your entry point, there are some aspects of this work (and of Murphy's work overall) that will strike the reader. Kitsch? Taste is on the tongue of the taster. Horror? Not at all, though the awe and reverence that some horror hints at can be found here. Possibly mere fantasy? Yes, possibly, but those who know better. Or it might be a revelation of esotericism, or an obfuscation of the same, or, perhaps, both at once. As usual, with Murphy's work, there are multiple meanings and multiple entry points for readers, "a diversity of operations," as they say. This quote, describing one of the characters in Psalms of the Magistrate, might just as well be used to describe Murphy's mystical auctorial foray. The author served as poet, oracle, and hagiographer. They seemed to function as a mirror in which the facts were distorted only by the necessities of the muse. Psalms of the Magistrate by Damian MurphyĪs with all fiction, his expositions contained a grain of truth. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |