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The Names of the Hare

An appreciation of Barry Flanagan In 1983, Barry Flanagan and Seamus Heaney collaborated on an illustrated version of The Names of the Hare, the Irish poet’s rendition of the medieval poem. Beneath three characteristically graceful leaping hares, there is a roll call of the impish creature’s names, this being the only way the hunter could get the […]

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Sybarite among the Shadows

Introduction SYBARITE AMONG THE SHADOWS, the short story, was originally published in International Times, the newspaper of the counterculture, in 1977[1]. The story was inspired by a passage in Francis X. King’s Ritual Magic in England which asserted that Aleister Crowley introduced Aldous Huxley to mescaline in pre-war Berlin. I found the notion of such contrary types sharing so […]

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