Barefoot In The Head

The Girl at the Inn The city was open to the nomad The fountain sparkled for his lips But at the inn the girl who served there Had nothing to spare a traveller The traveller settled at the inn Although he left his bill unpaid The girl no longer held him strange One day she let him clasp her lightly And then......more

I've been curious about this book ever since I read a review of the 1990 Thurston Moore/Borbetomagus record that named itself after Aldiss's work (Thomas Pynchon wrote the liner notes to that thing). Anyhow, I guess I "enjoyed" this book, though really Barefoot in the Head is such an experimental wo......more

-Muchas rutas llevan a Interzona. Algunos se pierden por el camino-. Género. Ciencia-Ficción. Lo que nos cuenta. En el futuro, los habitantes de Europa viven bajo los efectos alucinógenos de las bombas de aerosol psicomimético arrojadas durante la última guerra. El protagonista, oriundo de los Balcane......more

Man lives his life in sleep, and in sleep he dies. -Gurdjieff George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was a mystic who, after spending several years travelling throughout Asia during his early adulthood in the years before W.W. I, developed a syncretic spiritual doctrine combining Buddhism, Sufism, and Hinduism.......more

I have just successfully finished reading Aldiss' most experimental novel, BAREFOOT IN THE HEAD, at the age of 56, my third attempt (the first when I was 18, the second a few years later). The first half of the book I always found excellent (but difficult). It's the second half I had problems with.......more