Blast Your Way to Megabucks with My Secret Sex-Power Formula - Softcover

Dukes, Ramsey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0904311139 ISBN 13: 9780904311136

Publisher: Mouse That Spins, 2003

Synopsis

Long out of print and much sought after, this important collection of essays was republished as a print on demand title

• Why does there seem to be less magic in the modern world? Could it be because we are all better magicians?
• Is it time to reinstate the charlatan in his vital role as initiator on the occult path?
• Is scientific thought declining in favour of magical thought? And is this inevitable?
• Have men traditionally played a leading role because of a deep sense of their own uselessness relative to women? And is this situation beginning to reverse?
• Might we not be living with another’s virtual reality? How would this effect our under- standing of this universe?
• Have I failed to blast my way to megabuck$ because you are standing reading this blurb rather than buying my book?

These and other questions are explored in depth in this volume that brings together essays written in the 1980s by one of the most original and creative contemporary writers on magic.

Open your mind to a breath of fresh air from Ramsey Dukes

About this title

From the Publisher

In this volume and the following "What I Did In My Holidays" are collected all the essays and material that Ramsey Dukes has written post Thundersqueak - excluding the full-length books "Words Made Flesh" and "The Good The Bad The Funny".

Although the first to be published, this is described as the "second volume" of collected works because it is intended to produce volume 1, containing the earlier material, at a later date. This seems a bit eccentric, but it reflects the harsh reality that the earlier material was not written on a word processor, and may have to be keyed in by hand because my OCR system has problems with old fabric ribbon typescript.

The material is included here in approximate chronological order, because it is of some interest to see how the ideas develop with time. The most obvious exception is the essay "Blast Your Way To Megabuck$" which was added later to give this volume a nice title. The first essay in this volume was written in 1980 and the last must have been about 1986 because it is a story derived from the book Words Made Flesh. Most of the articles have already been published in magazines, and I am grateful for the chance to reproduce them here.

From the Author

Some of this stuff is a bit dated - but it still includes some of my most important and influential articles. The book is better typeset now and reads better than the original edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mouse That Spins
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0904311139
• ISBN 13: 9780904311136
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 240