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CONFESSIONS
OF A NOCTURNAL PICARO
by purple peril
The Nine Voices of London's 'purple peril': A Manifesto
'Give a man a mask and he will tell you the truth.' - Oscar Wilde
The Speculative and Thetic Modes:
Futurities, Cognitive Narratologies, Utopian Drives, Hauntologies
The Prismatic Mode:
The Enigma, The Sublime, The Search for Lost Integers, The Crossing of The Threshold, The Ecstatic, Dissolution as Freedom.
The Hermetic Mode:
The Arcane, The Esoteric, Alchemy, The Occult
Mode of The Foolish Wit:
Light Humour, Nonsense, Juvenile Pranks, Frivolity, Whimsicality, Silliness.
Mode of The Witty Fool:
The Eiron, Provocation, Edgy Mirth, Reversal, Merry Ritual, Social Satire.
The Decadent Mode:
Erotic Psychogeographies, Synaesthetiscapes, Tactile Correspondances.
The Tragicomic Mode:
Shame, Embarrassment, Self-Deprecation, Acute Self-Awareness, Urban Modernity, Dry Irony.
The Elegiac and Lyrical Modes:
Serenity, Sincerity, Tranquillity, Clarity, Grieving, Loss, Acceptance.
The Gothic and New Weird Modes:
Paranoia, Self-Delusion, Self-Doubt, The Uncanny, Monstrosity, The Conflation of Dimensions.
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