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Official publication date: 17th February 2003 From Antioch to the Twilight Zone, from Saddleworth Moor to the caves of Tora-Bora, black ink spills from the pen of a great unsung British essayist. The Savoy ship's philosophical rat—coming from an odd angle out of time and space... Robert "Phil" Meadley has been coming into the Savoy office for twenty-five years, and has partcipated in some of our more off-the-wall scenarios. He has watched the goings-on with a clinical eye, and here records his insights into our Marx Brothers-meets-Schopenhauer shenanigans. Up the rickety stairs to a Savoy office that is now deceased, he has recorded the world of all our yesterdays. Phil captures the madness of the events, the fervid atmosphere of being stuck in an office with a hundred years of Manchester history boiling in its bricks. He catches the pirate ship of Savoy at a moment of transition between the Old World of the seedy end of Deansgate and our subsequent move to the bright New World of Withington, almost turning us into an up-market cruise ship. Events—now just hazy memories—that seemed life and death at the time, reduced to farce. Phil has used them as jumping off points to write about the big themes and big events of his book. On Horror, real and imagined: "There, but for the Grace of God go I." said a Catholic prelate watching a Protestant burn. He did. The Protestants burned him a few years later. Well, that's one way to get your bon mot in the language. He wasn't the only one to die but the others didn't die with irony. On Diana's funeral: They called her 'a loose cannon' and the shade of Tommy Cooper stalked the land. On the Moors Murderers: I doubt if there's a square mile of the inhabited world that hasn't soaked up the ephemeral juices of some act of violent selfishness. I don't believe in abstract evil. It's just a metaphor we use as an excuse. On the Holocaust: The black hole has a core. Its name is Mengele. His spider's web is made of railway lines. On Hombres, Hopalongs and Mysterious Dave Mather: Fantasy is both a touchstone and a talisman in a world overhung with monstrous tyrannies of all sorts and sizes. On a voyage to the end of the world, with pirates and philosophers: "I've been thinking," says Bob. "If algebra is the language of philosophy, then you could express the substance of the universe as 'w squared times d equals R', where the elements of the equation are (w)eirdness, (d)odginess and (R)eality." On September 11th: You have to give it to Osama Bin Laden, no-one else has managed to piss-off, collectively and simultaneously, the Americans. the Europeans, the Russians, the Chinese and the majority of Islamic governments. Designed to death by John Coulthart and lavishly illustrated with a copious selection of rare, eclectic and downright bizarre drawings and photographs, this could only be a Savoy book! "For those tired of the lazy after-dinner displays of Sunday supplement journo-personalities, Robert Meadley offers substance and originality. What you'll find here is the work of a sharp, idiosyncratic, independent and wonderfully educated, observant mind. They are literary excursions in some ways more reminiscent of the great 18th century eccentrics than more modern essayists and as such they carry a certain post-modern atmosphere. Give this book your generosity and your time and it's very likely you'll never see life quite the same again." Michael Moorcock in his introduction Although the official release of this book will be in February, copies are available for purchase now. For mail order details, including postage rates, see our Orders section. |
A TEA DANCE AT SAVOY by Robert Meadley J U N E 2 0 0 2
A Voyage to Arcturus in print A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS by David Lindsay Official publication date: Monday August 5th 2002 Deluxe limited edition on quality paper stock This is, we believe, the most definitive and prestigious edition of Lindsay's masterpiece to have been published to date. Printed on coated paper, with pages blocked in gold and jacketed in the Symbolist visions of Jean Delville: a true collector's edition. Includes rare photographs of the author. Features: Prism and Pentecost: David Lindsay and the British Apocalypse—Introduction by Alan Moore The Haunted Man—Colin Wilson's seminal essay on David Lindsay Philosophical Aphorisms by David Lindsay "A Voyage to Arcturus demands that David Lindsay be considered not as a mere fascinating
one-off, as a brilliant maverick, but as one worthy and deserving
of that shamanistic mantle; of the British visionary and apocalyptic
legacy." "David Lindsay—a wonderful writer! A Voyage to Arcturus is a masterpiece! It's an extraordinary work . . . "David Lindsay's extraordinary A Voyage to Arcturus must be counted one of the strangest and in some ways most powerful
books of our time. Undoubtedly a work of genius. Invested with
a sweeping imagination that can only be compared to Blake's. One
of the profoundest and most awe-inspiring inquiries into the problem
of evil ever written." "The invention is continuous, the sense of mystery sustained.
If that vague and much abused word 'genius' can ever have definition,
then A Voyage to Arcturus is one of its products." |
TBA— The Savoy Holiday Annual Cornucopia
Still in production, this will be Savoy's first all-colour comicbook. One-hundred-and-fifty large-format pages of art and text, it will contain new Meng & Ecker and Lord Horror and La Squab strips, and introduce new characters the Tic Dolly Rows. R G Meadley will write about how real and fictional life interact in the worlds that Savoy have created. He will be examining this from the perspectives of, in turn, the death of Princess Diana, the Saddleworth Moors and Myra Hindley, Schopenhauer, Lord Horror, the Lancashire mills and Beelzebub and Jeffrey Archer. Probably our most expensive production. Publication—when we've found the cash—to be announced.
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