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The The: Dusk (Epic)

Mat Snow, Q, February 1993

MATT JOHNSON, principal boy of The The, is 31 going on 17, a perennial quester after spiritual fulfilment and soul's ease. In his last two dispatches (Infected and Mind Bomb) he sought the answer in the overthrow of an authoritarian world order which, he could exclusively reveal, was rooted not so much socio-economically as in a totalitarian cast of mind that spread, as it were, virally.

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