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Would be interested to hear what you think about it.
Whilst I can absolutely see Wilson's point about the outsider artist as a figure in - and outwith - society, the book felt very much like a personal obsessive rant that didn't always make sense in the detail. The sort of content that these days you would expect to find on blogs and forums rather than books and newspapers.

Now what can I say 'bout the rant U mention apart from the fact that I took 2 choices frmo there to read further on: -Nietzche
-Berneard Shaw
Well the first one, has a vitriolic tongue & his rant could easily fill more than half of the book. So compared to him Mr. Wilson is ok to my "book"
Also in my proposal the contents of this book should be given as seperate assignments on kids that graduate form Elementary schooling, a perfect =fast paced= intro to famous works byprominent writers of a not so distant past. A unification work that does bring the luminoscity of a completist.. He is indeed putting his own gears in motion in there fmo his deep understanding of their works.

Also if U can "get by" with my freq typo's I'ld like to have U on my list of buddies in here, I just read both yr posts
( and even if I dunno what that other writer U posted is about) U seem like a well read guy -- Providding yr metalic body doesn't wear out first!! But heey we cuold alwayzuse yr C.N.S preserved in a some sort of solution to preserve yr consciousness!! Lol... Liked yr answer there also :D
Have to go now.. Only a couple of hrs to sleep. I am over-stretching my time limit as it is!


The Outsider as gateway drug to a lot of other writers and artists, especially the existentialists - I'd forgotten about that idea! I'm sure you're right, especially for those who like Wilson's style in the first place.
And there is something very teenage about it, so it is probably best read in sixth form or thereabouts. By my late twenties I was a little too cynical to take it all on board.
Incidentally, the thing that has stayed with me most from The Outsider is the story of George Fox, wandering the countryside intent upon his mystical mission.
Another book (a favourite of someone I fell for years later - I do rather have a Type) which has a very similar theme, of art at any cost, in novel form: The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham. Though I've only seen the film and I understand that there is much more to be found in the writing style.
On usernames: what about trying it without a space: "Dan'sObsessions" / "DansObsessions"? Then that would appear above your posts in threads like this one.

Books mentioned in this topic
The Mind Parasites (other topics)Rogue Messiahs: Tales of Self-Proclaimed Saviors (other topics)
The Outsider (other topics)
The Space Vampires (other topics)
The Tower (other topics)
i've read:
The Outsider
The Mind Parasites
The Tower + the rest of the series
The Space Vampires (source of Lifeforce, sigh)
Rogue Messiahs: Tales of Self-Proclaimed Saviors