You Should Come With Me Now: Stories of Ghosts by M. John Harrison

Author:M. John Harrison [Harrison, M. John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Comma Press
Published: 2017-11-23T04:30:00+00:00

The Theory Cadre

(1) THE THEORY CADRE IN SNOWDONIA

In its earliest years, the Ambiente Hotel’s shadowy but powerful Theory Cadre committed itself to a regime of Crowleyism, mechanical engineering and systemic self-doubt. The accompanying docufictional image restages a crucial moment from the 1948 May Day Phenomenology Camp: an anonymous member of what was then little more than a clique retreats down the Watkins Path from ‘a sudden organic lurching movement half-glimpsed along the lowering ridgeline’. ‘Several hanging cubical structures,’ AE Fenell was later to recall, ‘were observed briefly during a lightning storm around the isolated peak of Yr Aran.’ On the same day some younger members of the Camp, tragically decoding a shopping list as an instruction, became disoriented and committed political suicide by simultaneously immersing each other in one of the deeper pools of the Afon Cwm Llan. [Photograph and text courtesy Alice E Fennel, both from her forthcoming monograph ‘Actioning the Optimal: The Theory Cadre in Wales’.]

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