FLY BLOG POSTS

  • Robert Anton Wilson & Steven ‘fly’ Pratt: A Serial Killer In The Whitehouse

    Robert Anton Wilson & Steven ‘fly’ Pratt: A Serial Killer In The Whitehouse

      A teaser from my full audio interview with Dr Robert Anton Wilson, recorded at his humble home in Capitola/Live Oak/Santa Cruz, California (looking out over the Monterey Bay). This recording was rediscovered in a jumble-bunch of mini discs–if you can remember that flash-in-the-pan format–only last week. I made my first round of rough chapter…

  • BBC Radio 3: The Trial Of Ezra Pound

    BBC Radio 3, Sunday, 20 Jul 2008, 21:30.“To mark 2008’s 50th anniversary of his release, historian Sean Street investigates how Ezra Pound, one of the 20th century’s most important poets, was accused of treason by the US Government and held for years in a mental hospital after he made a series of anti-American and anti-Semitic…

  • W.B Yeats: Politics, Psychology and Spiritualism

    He created a complex system of spirituality, using the image of interlocking gyres (similar to spiral cones) to map out the development and reincarnation of the soul….…He published his intricate theories of personality and history in A Vision in 1925 (which he substantially revised in 1937), and some of the symbolic patterns (gyres, moon phases)…

  • Zhanmusi Qiaoyisi BIG in CHINA

    By what miracles of linguistic mastery and literary imagination could Chinese characters be made to capture Joyce’s mind-bending manipulations of the alphabet? By what subtleties of cross-cultural understanding could the specificities of Ireland and its mythologies be translated for a Chinese audience? — http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/13/james-joyce-china-bloomsday-chinese-reputation …the alphabet vs. the equation….?

  • John Sinclair: ‘Bloomdido’ and ‘An Oscar For Treadwell’ at the Cosmic Trigger Launch Party

    Recorded, Edited and Uploaded by Complexity LTD. Cheers Nic. Steven James Pratt