During the writing of his autobiography, Die Bibel (published in 2016 by Steele/Roberts), Michael OLeary began a parallel fictional autobiography which he conceived as an apocrypha of additional aspects to his intellectual & emotional life, combining myriad intertwingings of previous works to form a synthesis, a kind of Rainbows End of the Mind, as its characters & events ride a rollercoaster of the psyche, a tipi haere helterskelter on what might be called the Stratosfear or WindstarZ encompassing a spiritual weltanschauung of history & life. It reads not unlike the earliest Dadaist writings & therefore has the subtitle a Surrealist Novel. Perhaps its about dislocation in society perhaps it isnt. Maybe its about a suburban man becoming unsettled in real life & entering the other world of the imagination maybe it isnt. Apocrypha Scripta is about identity & belonging. It looks at the Sixties generation of peace & love & antimaterialism which morphed & degenerated into the I, me, mine of the reforms (a much abused and maligned word) of the mideighties & nineties which created the 21st Century Schizoid Person, fuelled by technology & greed, love & dreams, war & peace, culminating in the stop the world, I wanna get off motif, as the earth cries from Cloud 9 wiith 2020 Vision & Reality of Covid19 & the Existential Crisis of realising that we need to not want so much, as well as finally understanding that the word Existential might really have a meaning. Amen. "OLearys...

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