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| Photograph by Loren Bliss copyright 2011. Click on image to see it full size. |
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This -- a why-it's-meaningful-today look at the lost book "Glimpses of a Pale Dancer" and reflections on the love relationship that helped bring it to its final form -- is what I've been working on since 18 December. But it's too long to post here, even divided as it is into seven easy pieces to accommodate busy schedules and multi-tasked attentions. Hence the above photograph, which illustrates the full "'Dancer' Resurrected" manuscript, linked here.
Normally I would apologize for such an extended absence from Outside Agitator's Notebook, but the story was assigned by the Muse, which meant I was at the keyboard 16 or 18 hours per day -- scarcely able to think of or do anything else until it was finished.
As many of you know, the original "Dancer" manuscript was destroyed, along with nearly all the rest of my life's work, by a fire in 1983. Hence this writing required not just the usual intellectual exercise of wrestling words into complete sentences but also a lot of confrontation with painful emotions, the intrusion of which I tried to minimize in the interest of staying true to the theme of original "Dancer" and the optimistic disclosures of new material. The first "Dancer" documented how despite deliberate misrepresentation by Ruling Class Media, the 1960s Counterculture was a genuine revolution -- not in any conventional sense of the word, but in human consciousness itself. This reborn "Dancer" describes how the revolution continues despite all Ruling Class efforts to suppress it.
At the very least I hope all of you will find "Dancer Resurrected" thought provoking and usefully informative.
Normally I would apologize for such an extended absence from Outside Agitator's Notebook, but the story was assigned by the Muse, which meant I was at the keyboard 16 or 18 hours per day -- scarcely able to think of or do anything else until it was finished.
As many of you know, the original "Dancer" manuscript was destroyed, along with nearly all the rest of my life's work, by a fire in 1983. Hence this writing required not just the usual intellectual exercise of wrestling words into complete sentences but also a lot of confrontation with painful emotions, the intrusion of which I tried to minimize in the interest of staying true to the theme of original "Dancer" and the optimistic disclosures of new material. The first "Dancer" documented how despite deliberate misrepresentation by Ruling Class Media, the 1960s Counterculture was a genuine revolution -- not in any conventional sense of the word, but in human consciousness itself. This reborn "Dancer" describes how the revolution continues despite all Ruling Class efforts to suppress it.
At the very least I hope all of you will find "Dancer Resurrected" thought provoking and usefully informative.
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