Isn't it possible to see the occult elements in Sinclair as a less outrageous but no less self-aware attempt to satirise and attack the establishment? Magico Marxism, as Alistair Bonnett has dubbed it. Stewart Home/LPA pamphlets about Royal Family blood rites and what not? This kind of stuff turns up in The Invisibles and From Hell. Sinclair's more sober, but no less mischievous take is well represented in the MI6/Archer chapter of Lights Out.
Reading Rodinsky's Room at the moment, which is absolutely fascinating. I'm not actually a Londoner, but I know Brick Lane and Whitechapel a little, so perhaps it has more resonance for me for that reason? Or is it just that the story is so absorbing in its own right?
― Stew, Friday, 12 June 2009 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link