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My brother once said, way back in the laughing dreamtime of childhood, that humanity will never be unified until we face a common foe from outer-space. How we loved our Science Fiction even back then; but War of the Worlds was already 40 years old in 1938, and such future visions were very much part of our past : Martians and Normans - it was all the same to us. He still believed it in 1943; that Christmas I remember him telling us (we happy few radiating in his presence at the dinner table; he was 20 and our shining hero even in his old civvies) that as far as he was concerned first contact with extra-terrestrial otherness couldn't come quickly enough. Better still (he said) if 'they' happen to be friendly so they might show us how to get along without killing ourselves - or the planet.

He was a sound ecologist my brother, with dread fears of what he saw in the offing, however far-fetched or ill founded it may have seemed at the time. In fact, in the face of our more imminent realities (and their attendant concerns) such future visions seemed almost comforting.

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from Three Tenses of the Sacrificial Dead, released November 8, 2013

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'I feel like Wainwright - we are both hermetic ramblers. He made his books for when he was no longer capable of rambling his beloved fells, and I made my music for when I'm no longer able to ramble the by-ways of Albion - but only to listen, and think "Was that really me? That solitary figure who stood in a landscape dreaming of ages past in dread fear of the future."

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