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Heinrich—someone’s lost child.
Helpless Clairvoyants—legendary French rock group who only spoke German in interviews and who played endless FX-destroyed jams w/stone-cold vocals and who split up after headlining a protest gig on the moon.
Helpless Clairvoyants Roadies—choristers.
Henry V—king of England. Had the flesh boiled off his bones so he could be sent in the post.
Hercules—stands at the gate of the Mediterranean and seals passage in, and out.
King Herod—wanted Jesus dead.
Philippe Herreweghe—Belgian conductor of the classic St. Matthew Passion.
Hildegard of Bingen—a feather on the breath of God.
Betty Hill—abducted by extraterrestrials alongside her husband for three days in September of 1961 from a town in rural New Hampshire.
Carl Fredrik Hill—madman painting.
Heinrich Himmler—Reichsführer of the SS and architect of the Holocaust. Committed suicide when captured by the Allies on 23 May 1945.
Hippies—opened their heart to the whole universe and found it was loving.
Hippy Convoy Across the Sea of Fecundity—choristers.
Historical Fantasists—any word but is.
Adolf Hitler—leader of the Nazi Party and of the Third Reich (1933–1945). Architect of the Second World War. Author of Mein Kampf. Shot himself in the head in the Führerbunker on 30 April 1945, ten days after his fifty-sixth birthday.
Holidaymakers in the Streets of Athens After the War—choristers.
The Holy Ghost—chorister.
The Holy Guardian Angel—knowledge of, and conversation with, your very own HGA represents the culmination of the Abramelin working.
Holy Whores—choristers.
Homeless Person Asleep in the Grass with His Awful Socks—chorister.
Bishop Honorius of Rome—anathematised heretic who believed that although Christ had two natures and was, essentially, divided, in his humanity and in his divinity, yet in this division, precisely because of this division, in fact, he was united in one will, which was the will of God, the Father, who made this world, Maximilian Rehberg claims, in an updating of Honorius’s heresy, in order that Christ, and all of the Christs to come (for, in his argument, anyone who enters history is incarnated as a Christ), could Run Wild In It.
Hopelessly Lost Prisoners with Empty Eyes—choristers.
Hugo Höppener—aka Fidus. Artist, Lebensreform advocate, virulent anti-Semite.
Horses Walking on the Bottom of the Ocean with Great Wounds in Their Stomachs—the separation of the firmament, the first act of God. We are walking in the stuff of our own wounds.
Host at a Concert Hall in Lamia—chorister.
Host’s Wife at a Concert Hall in Lamia—chorister.
Jacques Hotteterre—French composer and flautist. Chorister.
A.E. Housman—poet, author of the classic A Shropshire Lad.
Huge Old Man with a Mediterranean Tan Who Looks Like Kenneth Anger—chorister.
Huge Old Man’s Wife—chorister.
Husbands and Wives and Children Grouped Around Tables—choristers.
Idiot Girls—choristers.
Idiot in a Red Headband—chorister.
Ignominious Human Torso Turning Somersaults in Khartoum—chorister.
Ignorant Moderns—it’s just chemicals, and atoms, and evolution.
Illiterate Thugs—choristers.
Inchoate Voices in the Distance in the Night of Khartoum—choristers.
Initiates—choristers.
Inmates Suffering from Shell Shock—choristers.
Inmates Who Drank—choristers.
Intellectual Spiritual Aristocratic Types—choristers.
Interlocutors—choristers.
The Invisible Man—a science fiction by H.G. Wells.
Irishman in an Italian Prisoner-of-War Camp Near the End of the War—with a badly executed tattoo that everyone thought was a harp, maybe, but that turned out to be a prison cell where the bars on the window were actually Cupid’s arrows that had imprisoned him ever since he had made love to a ghost come out of a river.
The Iron Giant—ex-serviceman from Calderbank. subterranean, co-founder of the revived Church of the Stone of First Witness aka The SIRK, secretary, fan of Wordsworth when he’s had a few.
Irritating Finnish Doodler—resident at Grez-sur-Loing one summer long ago now in the past. Looked Chinese, but claimed he was a Finn right enough. Later joined the army and renounced art altogether, thank God. Only but then he died, which was a pure sin.
Italian Boy of Barely Seventeen Years—chorister.
Jack Frost—?
M.R. James—ghost story writer. Author of the classic “A View from a Hill.”
Januists—offshoot of Futurism that both predates and supersedes it.
Janus—god of passage, doors, gateways, tunnels, transmitters, beginnings and endings.
Japanese Woman—chorister.
Japanese Woman Being Painfully Entered from Behind—chorister.
Jean-Marc—Babette’s partner who trains attack dogs. Master of Ook. Wore a Mohican like an old-school punk. Later I heard that he was a member of the French experimental rock group Soixante Étages. Went on to make his fortune in the French “dot-com bubble.” These days I hear he is pals with Sarkozy.
Saint Jerome—translated The Bible into Latin, the Vulgate. Took to studying Hebrew in order to circumvent an obsessive desire for masturbation.
John of Damascus—Christian monk who coined the term “the Books of the Unlearned.”
John the Baptist—traditionally portrayed as headless, or bodiless, more properly, for a great and secret reason.
Al Jolson—“king of blackface.”
Joseph—Christ’s earthly father returned to Bethlehem, his hometown, from Nazareth, because there was a census on, which is why Jesus was born there.
James Joyce—author. “Near to the wild heart.”
Julio—proprietor of Julio’s in Ostend aka Rabbit’s Wedding.
Carl Gustav Jung—magician and psychoanalyst. Dreamed of a phallus on a throne.
D.K.—D.K.
D.K.’s Father—drowned in all the rivers of the world, now.
D.K.’s Mother—D.K.’s mother.
H.K.—D.K.’s sister.
P.K.—D.K.’s brother.
Kabbalists from the Thirteenth Century with Names Like Garlands of Flowers or Gardens of Fruit—choristers.
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger—German/Italian baroque composer and performer.
Karo Man Bursting from the Crowd with a Blade the Size of His Goddamn Forearm—primitive weaponry.
Karo Man with a Long Kimono and a Bullet Belt—he has drawn Death.
Karo Man with a Single Glass Eye (Is It?) Wearing a Cap with What Looks Like a Spark Plug On It (Is It?)—chorister.
Karo Men of Ethiopia—aloof, and distant.
Karo Village Elder—chorister.
Karo Woman with the Crucified Christ Dangling from Her Nose
chorister.
Karo Women of Ethiopia—their constellated faces as if the suffering stars themselves have come down and are risen, in the flesh.
Katarina the Bitch and Her Husband Thierry—obviously swingers. Both had red hair, which was the weirdest thing ever. Now run a “painting retreat” in the mountains outside Malaga, in Spain.
David Keenan—author of This Is Memorial Device, For The Good Times, The Towers The Fields The Transmitters and Xstabeth.
Edward Kelley—John Dee’s scrying partner who conversed with angels and who witnessed great fountains, rising up, and who was commanded to swap his wife with Dee’s wife, by these same angels, and who was later reincarnated as the occultist Aleister Crowley.
Thomas à Kempis—God is best pleased with adoration, not theological speculation.
Kid Leaping Off a Bridge and Landing on His Back in the Water
chorister.
B.B. King—banging blues guitarist on the wall of the bar in Bourron-Marlotte.
Kitchen Attendant in a Hostel Near Glen Affric—chorister.
Knights Templar—worshipped a (bisexual) talking head named Baphomet in the catacombs of Cugny.
The Kommandant—unknown artist whose works have been identified, and verified, as being from the same hand—Lord knows how—in concentration camps around Poland, appearing in the early to mid-1940s, like environmental art with pointless tunnels that turned in on themselves to nowhere but that were miles long despite themselves, or the inexplicable three-tiered target signs, cut into barbed-wire fences around the camps, like an RAF sign or the three layers of hell, and of course the only person with the ability to create that kind of art is a Kommandant, is a prison guard, is an insider. Isn’t it?
Tadeusz Kościuszko—Polish/Lithuanian military leader and national hero, whose heart and body were divided at death and whose ghost now walks the subterranean pathways of the black ash forest of La Route de la Grande Vallée, which links Montigny-sur-Loing with Bourron-Marlotte.
Richard Kostelanetz—American artist, publisher of Assembling.
Ladies of the Night—choristers.
Ladies-Only Spiritual Art Group in Athens—choristers.
R.D. Laing—absolute clown.
Lalino—sexy star goddess.
Lame Old Hypnotised Crone in a Grand Theatre in Greece—chorister.
Rachael Lancaster—designer.
Landlady with Early-Onset Dementia—chorister.
Large Group of Men Watching a Woman Slowly Dancing Through the Night of Khartoum—choristers.
Latino Honey—chorister.
Saint-Laurent—Christian martyr.
D.H. Lawrence—author and poet, author of the classic “Fish.”
Saint Lazarus of Autun—back from the dead, Christ’s biggest fuck-up.
Lead Guitarist in a Hawaiian Shirt—barely audible.
Lead Singer—in yoga pants.
Led Zeppelin—legendarily loud rock band.
Leda—Aetolian princess, raped by Zeus in the guise of a swan, in return.
Legions of the Walking Dead—choristers.
Heather Leigh—photographer.
Leonine Bass Straight Out of Amateur Dramatics—chorister.
Lesbians—choristers.
Liberators of Auschwitz—choristers.
The Lightning Bolt—subterranean, away team, co-founder of the revived Church of the Stone of First Witness aka The SIRK.
The Lilies of the Field—choristers.
Lilith—Out! Oil Skin of the Dark! Earth Abound!
Limbless Boys with Blackened Torsos—choristers.
Limping Waiter in a Cafe in Greece—chorister.
Line of German Soldiers Stood Motionless Along the Cliffs—choristers.
The Lion of Judah—ravish me, in the moment, extinguish me, now.
The Little Girls of France—how their fathers kiss them.
Little Kid in White Briefs Holding His Nose as He Jumps into the Water—chorister.
Little Punk with a Backwards Baseball Cap—chorister.
Little Sparrow Who Cannot Sing—for God has stopped her throat.
Local Dignitary from Trikala—chorister.
Long-Lost Love—chorister.
Long-Necked Women in Khartoum—choristers.
Longinus—soldier of Rome.
Lord Lucifer—chorister.
Lost Old Inmate—chorister.
Lotus Eaters—legendary travelling band, part missionary, part Gypsy bandit.
Luke—one of only two Gospel accounts that mention the miracle of Christ’s virgin birth.
The Luna Armada—mysterious moth-like formation of spectral entities or crafts which made assault on the Victory Gardens as moths drawn to the moon on Saturday 20 April 2099 at approximately 3.14 SST. There is a lore of days.
Martin Luther—For I am dust, and ashes, and full of sin, and I am speaking to the living, the eternal, and the true God, and there is no bargaining with him.
Mel Lyman—cult leader who laid holy siege to America and cut a brilliant album with his Family called American Avatar and who died, at the age of forty, of no cause of death whatsoever.
Arthur Machen—author of the classic “The Bowmen.”
Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Vézelay—abbey that presents the most imperturbably alien manifestation of the unknown God in Romanesque sculpture.
Madman Breaking from the Crowd—chorister.
The Madonna—Mary Mother of God.
The Mahdi—prophesied redeemer of Islam.
Yasser Mahmoud—aka The Ostrich due to his preferred mode of execution, which alternated between upside-down crucifixions over firepits and being buried alive, head first.
Malodie—sly Malodie, Frater Jim’s prison camp nemesis.
Man Carving a Wooden Madonna During the Invasion of Crete—chorister.
Man Clacking His Stumps Together in a Frenzy—chorister.
Man Drawing a Man on Stilts—chorister.
Man in Black Trunks Applying Suntan Lotion to a Blonde Woman in a Turquoise Bikini Who Is Complaining That He Is Too Rough with His Hands—choristers.
The Man on Stilts—ghastly omen of Khartoum.
Man Returned from Mars with His Memory Wiped—chorister.
Man Smoking a Cigarette with a Pockmarked Face on the Cover of a Book—got to be Blaise Cendrars on the cover of the hardback of Selected Writings published by New Directions.
Man Spread Out on a Bunk—chorister.
Man Standing in the Street Smoking Kif in Khartoum During the Siege (Occasionally He Licks His Lips and Scratches His Face)—chorister.
Man Who Runs an Eccentric Bookshop in France—chorister.
Man with an Old-Fashioned Blunderbuss—chorister.
Man with Red Swollen Eyes and a Burned Moustache Rocking on the Floor in What Appears to Be a Pool of His Own Urine—chorister.
Man with Tightly Curled Hair and the Swollen Nose of a Perpetual Drug Addict—chorister.
Man with Two Mangled Stumps for Legs Dancing on the Spot—chorister.
Claude Mann—from Chicago, Illinois. Tank Battalion driver at Normandy. Killed in the battle for Bezange-la-Petite on 8 November 1944. Ecce Homo.
Many-Tentacled Semi-Translucent Alien—feeds on our thoughts like a dog with a tapeworm.
Mark—like any good biographer, Mark skips over the circumstances of Christ’s birth altogether, because everyone knows that is always the least interesting bit in biographies (except with Jesus, woops).
Martha of Bethany—poor Lazarus’s sister who complained to Christ that surely, by this time, her brother’s corpse would stink.
Saint Martin—Martin of Tours, patron saint of France.
Mary—gave birth to Jesus in Bethlehem.
Marxist Scum—any word but is.
Elizabeth Mascaroni—some crap pop star.
Mass Couplings That Appeared as Multi-Limbed Gods and Goddesses—choristers.
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers—co-founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, translator of The Bornless One aka The Headless One. Deathless, too, as his death certificate lists no cause.
Saint Mathurin—patron saint of madmen.
Matilda of Flanders—in Normandy, William the Conqueror and his wife Matilda of Flanders built two abbeys in order that they could be reconciled with the Church after they married without the Pope’s consent: the Abbaye aux Hommes and the Abbaye aux Dames.
Matthew—one of only two Gospel accounts that mention Christ’s virgin birth.
R.C.F. Maugham—author of the classic Jersey Under the Jackboot.
McIntyre—chorister.
Arthur McManus—aka The Grey Wolf aka The Grey Bat aka The Grey Owl aka The Silent Owl aka The Grey Fox aka The Grey Shark aka De Schrijver aka Aha aka Art.
“Tusky” McPheat—chorister.
Jimmy McTavish—for example.
Blind Willie McTell—bluesman, singer of the classic “Delia.”
Herman Melville—author of the classic Pierre; or, The Ambiguities. Likened the cries of the wounded leviathan to the sounding of the atomic pain at the centre of the world.
Mr. Melville—Pierre’s father. The Outlandish Knight?
Mrs. Melville—Pierre’s mother, resident in the village of In The Beginning.
Pierre Melville—author of Lonely Caravan, White Marble and Full Length Mirror, co-founder of the Church of the Stone of First Witness, architect, theologian, adventurer, lover of Hildegard von Strophe, one summer. One half of the science fiction pseudonym Paimon.
Men in Cloaks with Horned Helmets in the Forest Around Villiers-sous-Grez—choristers.
Men of Little Faith—choristers.
Men Passing Around Water and Smoking Kif and Speculating During the Siege of Khartoum—choristers.
Men So Shrunken and Sunbeaten They Appeared as Children—choristers.
Men Stood in Silence—choristers.
Men Walking in Circles, Stood Naked, Rolling Improvised Cigarettes and Lying on the Ground Half-Starved—choristers.
Men Who Look Like Grotesque Stuffed Monkeys—choristers.
Mental Case in a Chair—chorister.
Freddie Mercury—what a showman. Stole the show at Live Aid.
Tarquinio Merula—early baroque Italian composer and instrumentalist. Chorister.
Meursault—lead character in Albert Camus’s The Stranger aka The Outsider aka The Outlandish Knight.
Meursault’s First Love—chorister.
Saint Michael—archangel.
Middle-Aged Explorers—choristers.
Middle-Aged Intellectuals—choristers.
Militarists in Black Space Suits—choristers.
Miserable Priest in a Hospital—chorister.
Marilyn Monroe—on the wall of a bar in Bourron-Marlotte.
Claudio Monteverdi—Italian composer, instrumentalist and priest. Chorister.
