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Alan Moore : THE BIRTH CAUL (CD & comic, Top Shelf 1999)
By Alan Moore, David J, and Tim Perkins, with artwork by Eddie Campbell - Staged in Newcastle upon Tyne, November 18, 1995. Subtitled "A shamanism of childhood" , THE BIRTH CAUL is a hypnotic evocation of all the stages of life, regressing back from adulthood into the very womb. The piece was inspired by Alan's discovery of a carefully wrapped birth caul in his mother's belongings after her death. The liner notes describe a caul as "the ancient English name for the residual membrane from the amniotic sac that envelops the head of some newborn babies. A traditional belief holds that if the caul is kept (usually by peeling it away onto paper) it can be used as a talisman that will protect the child from death by drowning for a lifetime". Alan's introductory note follows:
"The birth caul is a bell-flower membrane blossomed from the amnion that masks the newborn head. Its presence is occasional. Its purpose obscure, a vestment signaling involvement in some silent and unfathomable elite; some sect of Trappist embryos that dream the Absolute beneath these wan, translucent hoods.
"The birth caul is an evocation, both in poetic and ritual sense, of our first landscape and the forces that inform it. Alloying spoken human text with landscaped sound and ritual enactments, it attempts a vortex; winds an inspired dream from the site and date of its unique performance back towards the drowned, pellucid territory of our origins.
"The birth caul, gradually unfolded, is a fragile tatter, a lost map to be restored with these faint tracings, lines as thin and tentative as veins. The flaking membrane charts a monstrous and forgotten continent, each vivid splash of motherhood an archipelago. It is a crumpled and mismanaged postcard from a vanished state, its message in an antique hand not readily deciphered.
"The birth caul documents a personal Atlantis, a preverbal dreamtime, a naive shamanic state rich with abandoned totems; unremembered dance and fire; the florid signatures of mediaeval demons half-apparent through the strange-attractor loops of scribbled chalk upon a playground wall. A dark without a doll."
Alan Moore : THE BIRTH CAUL (CD & comic) ~57 MB
http://rapidshare.com/files/19030515/alnmoorethebirthcaulcomicandcd.rar
http://www.megaupload.com/de/?d=KA8H1H21
By Alan Moore, David J, and Tim Perkins, with artwork by Eddie Campbell - Staged in Newcastle upon Tyne, November 18, 1995. Subtitled "A shamanism of childhood" , THE BIRTH CAUL is a hypnotic evocation of all the stages of life, regressing back from adulthood into the very womb. The piece was inspired by Alan's discovery of a carefully wrapped birth caul in his mother's belongings after her death. The liner notes describe a caul as "the ancient English name for the residual membrane from the amniotic sac that envelops the head of some newborn babies. A traditional belief holds that if the caul is kept (usually by peeling it away onto paper) it can be used as a talisman that will protect the child from death by drowning for a lifetime". Alan's introductory note follows:
"The birth caul is a bell-flower membrane blossomed from the amnion that masks the newborn head. Its presence is occasional. Its purpose obscure, a vestment signaling involvement in some silent and unfathomable elite; some sect of Trappist embryos that dream the Absolute beneath these wan, translucent hoods.
"The birth caul is an evocation, both in poetic and ritual sense, of our first landscape and the forces that inform it. Alloying spoken human text with landscaped sound and ritual enactments, it attempts a vortex; winds an inspired dream from the site and date of its unique performance back towards the drowned, pellucid territory of our origins.
"The birth caul, gradually unfolded, is a fragile tatter, a lost map to be restored with these faint tracings, lines as thin and tentative as veins. The flaking membrane charts a monstrous and forgotten continent, each vivid splash of motherhood an archipelago. It is a crumpled and mismanaged postcard from a vanished state, its message in an antique hand not readily deciphered.
"The birth caul documents a personal Atlantis, a preverbal dreamtime, a naive shamanic state rich with abandoned totems; unremembered dance and fire; the florid signatures of mediaeval demons half-apparent through the strange-attractor loops of scribbled chalk upon a playground wall. A dark without a doll."
Alan Moore : THE BIRTH CAUL (CD & comic) ~57 MB
http://rapidshare.com/files/19030515/alnmoorethebirthcaulcomicandcd.rar
http://www.megaupload.com/de/?d=KA8H1H21
Thank you for this great thread. Much appreciated. Is this copy of Big Numbers only episode 1, or does it include the other 2 episodes? Thank you.
Doctor Who Story by Alan Moore
http://rs35.rapidshare.com/files/245766493/Doctor_Who_-_Alan_Moore_Stories.cbr
http://rs35.rapidshare.com/files/245766493/Doctor_Who_-_Alan_Moore_Stories.cbr
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