plain notes furl the gypsy fiddle and the band joins sideways shifting and
drifting over the Carpathian mountains.
Dark wells and billows of vapour brake the light into sharp-stalagmites
of a thousand brittle bloats, shadowing
tracts of cataract. Between the turfs
scutter and scuttle cling, feathery shatter and thaw.
……………………………………………….
Globe lume larva car pace rig but lo zen a saffron zombie is typical
numinous phosphorous scope lope rope nasty on tropical fish on a stalagmite-sloth
mole-herring gull-ship og carbon if thy tin ant wax-eater dew phone late
………………………………………………..
A fogment. A fig. A paper fragment from a collage. That’s all it is.
Just the flow of the ten thousand things. --------------------------------------------------
Though it seems so long ago, I have dreams - dreams to remember and remembrance runs wild to another planet - the start of a brilliant adventure.
The plaintive notes unfurl from the gypsy fiddle and the band joins in
with a sideways metallic blues, shifting and drifting like the clouds over the
Carpathian mountains. Dark swells and
billows of water-vapour brake the sunlight into shark-stalactites of a thousand
brittle glinting hues. Swelling
cloud-mass furls and bloats, shadowing tracts of land and cataract-white
rivers. Between the turfs beetles
scutter and scuttle, lichens cling, feathery hawks and eagles soar, ice starts
to crack, shatter and thaw.
Somehing’s going on between Jack Lane and
Florence Place. It’s all over New Lynsmouth.
Some d’say Old Paul Hill’s not too happy about it, but I don’t know so
much. She's a good, steady woman, is
Florence, even if she has got one too many of those modern ideas in her head,
you can’t blame her for that. And as for
Jack, the lupine, Hackensack chicken-shack, why, he’s just off on his way now,
up to Ting-a-Ling mine, with compass and plumb-line to measure the depths and
check the straightness and curvature of line.
The fox in tweeds, he rustles his whiskers in laconic amusement.
When Jack Lane chose a career in
mine-surveying he was putting his love of science to practical use. Some of his friends were more experimental in
their approach to the scientific arts. There
was Paul Hill the younger, with his constant tinkering around with engines and
mechanisms. And then there was
Gillpington – Elias Gillpington. He
seemed to study everything from ancient languages to flying machines. As if this wasn’t bad enough, he fell in with
that dubious relict, that self-appointed alchemist, Lazarus Taxon and got mixed
up in all kinds of events of a nature both agglutinative and palpably
eldritch.
The aforementioned phenomena described and
decried herein, herewith and heretofore, being mere ephemeral impressionist and
half-forgotten phonograph rolls and box-camera daguerreotype images flapping
briefly in eternity’s wink, we’ll say no more – what do you think?
{The Chops of Moss reside within and
characters they hide within, between the pages of a book – they wait for you to
take a look – meanwhile they hang in empty space suspended in a distant place
awaiting birth within the minds of readers of a hungry kind}
Here are some posters to print out:
The Horned Whale or An Morvil Kornek can be found at all good ebook sites, in a format to fit any device...
An Morvil Kornek or The Horned Whale, by Jeremy Schanche, available now at all major ebook distributors, in all formats... Plug in this electronic book and take a journey round the 'Shyre' - Come to Penwithershins and check out the Underground as Old Janner shows Pat Vulgata round the labyrinths of the mine in The Janetta Stone. Dark New Lynsmouth has seen many tribulations, but none so great as that set forth in The Kramvil, a gothic novel of eldritch and extraordinary phenomena which unwinds its thread through the twisting alleys of the Old Quarter. When the studious Elias Gillpington runs into the audacious scientist Lazarus Taxon, the wings of fate soon becloud the Keltek sky. As the shadow falls upon New Lynsmouth, Elias sees a glint of light in the presence of the beautiful Miss Constance Place. The story pulses and pullulates with life like a seething vat of yeast infested by furious clouds of flies and wasps on a sunny day, in an ancient lithograph of old Bombay. Potent, frothy, well-charged and heady, this electric manuscript will give you the skittering jitters and chill your rattling trotters. The collection of Poems will most likely sneak up on yous from downwind and lasso yous off to a land of golden sunshine, rustling leaves and phonographs furling out foxtrots 'fore rustling ya rational-mind and dry-gulching yous in Tuskaloosa or somewheres or some or other such place. Next, for the word-hungry among ye, we have a couple of glossaries to teach the tongues of talking. First be the Gerlyvryn Kernouac which explains some words of the ancient Cornish language which appear in the stories. Then we have the International Glossary which covers words from overseas, ancient and modern, as well as some archaic forms of Sowsnek, or 'English'. For our closing act, we have Ghost-Hulk of a Phantom, a darkly comic portrait of a struggling writer - a halucinatory roulade of oceanic fervour - a splattering of adrenalin on a canvas of vast cabbage-fields. To cut a John Dory short and chase the choice cuts I gotta say that An Morvil Kornek or The Horned Whale is the kind of book the lack of which would crook and rook up your reading-life by an absence of the positive presence of its very special form of effervescence.
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Jeremy Schanche
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Hi folks, I'm very happy to tell you that my ebook is ready for you all to devour.
If
it’s words you want, this book’s full of ‘em…
The
Horned Whale or An Morvil Kornek is the first book by
Jeremy Schanche.It contains a short story, a full-length
novel, a novella, a collection of poetry and two glossaries.
The
Janetta Stone is a subterranean tale which explores
the origins of tin-mining and the roots of language. Set in Cornwall’s metalliferous far-west, the
story is partly based on the author’s own experiences as one of the last
generation of Cornish miners. Glimpses
of an underground past melt into the present as the man from Chyannor shows reporter Pat Vulgata around the old
‘bal’, or mine, that runs out under the sea.
The
Kramvil is a gothic novel of mystery, romance and home-made
science, set in the archaic fishing port of New Lynsmouth, circa 1911. Elias Gillpington is a young scholar, quietly
pursuing a life of learning until he encounters the elderly Lazarus Taxon and
gets drawn into his world of extraordinary experimentation. Desperate to win the love of the luminous
Constance Place, Elias pursues his fate through the foggy alleys of the Old
Quarter, while back in the lab, something is taking shape, swelling, writhing,
emerging-
The fog, the sea, the dappled sunshine and the
clacking, rooking crows are as much a part of this story as its cast of rare
characters and the stream of inexplicable phenomena through which they pass.
Gerlyvrynn
Kernouac or the Cornish
Glossary gives translations for the Cornish words which occasionally enrich
the script. Cornish is a Brythonek
language – part of Ancient British culture and pre-dating Sowsnek, or the
English language by many centuries.
International
Glossary contains words from thirty-one different languages,
ancient, medieval and modern.
Ghost-Hulk
of a Phantom takes a laconic dive into the world of a
struggling writer whose only wish is to get his book published. Determined to make a few quid before he gets
old, the fame-hungry, whimsical and volatile Arthur Buxtereide has a whale of a
time in the wacky world of publishing. A
beastly tale.
Monstrous, lyrical and dream-like, this collection
of writing from the Keltek heart-land offers rich food for those who look
within.
Jeremy
Schanche has also published over 340 papers on art and
politics which are all available free.
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Check out my fiction ebook, The Horned Whale - available from all good ebook sites - The Horned Whale or An Morvil Kornek by Jeremy Schanche - ISBN: 9780993490910 - 175,710 words - $3.99 - Contains the mystery novel - The Kramvil, plus short stories, poetry and glossaries. Find out more at : http://yecaterpillar.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/the-horned-whale-by-jeremy-schanche.html
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