The Fanatical Pursuit of Purity Author:Jonathan Bowden The Fanatical Pursuit of Purity is a Gesamtkunstwerk or attempt at a total art-work in the Wagnerian tradition. It prefigures a puppet-stage or toy-theatre within which the lead character or marionette, Phosphorous Cool, has his circumference. Into this world other dolls - Mastodon Helix, Heathcote Dervish and Warlock Splendour Thomas - nimbly t... more »rip and spin. All of this finds itself punctuated by a third dimension or alternative space. It proves to be the unconscious or dream-space inhabited by these exercises in a macabre pantomime. This rival or extending narrative brings back our wooden figurines as part of an alternative Victoriana. It deals with Stephen Knights analysis of Jack the Ripper and a variant on Mary Shelleys Frankenstein - even James Whales film starring Boris Karloff. Mr Bowden believes in the creation of a separate world as arts real purpose. It goes without saying that the result is politically incorrect!.« less