Alternative TV: The World At Once…Dateline: Stonehenge
Paul Morley, NME, 1 July 1978
I FOUND myself re-reading Colin Wilsons' prodigal slice of philosophical mythmaking The Outsider the other week. During the time I spent submerging myself gleefully into its limpleg-inducing lines of pessimism and its corrupting details of challenge, two things happened in the space of a few days that intensified, in an indulgent and totally irrelevant way, my curiosity in Wilson's outlines and establishment of this figure, The Outsider.
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