Pigspurt

The performance text, more or less, with a few footnotes and entertaining illustrations of Ken Campbell's award winning comic monologue Pigspurt or Six Pigs from Happiness. A wealth of inventive storytelling most of which is autobiographical at root if not in full flower. A complexly structured but deceptively accessible associative rap encompassing Gnostic thought, theatrical anecdote, sexual role playing, an exploration of anima and animus and shadow, Philip K Dick's later work, conspiracy theory, the customs of Vanuatu, the comedy of Ken Dodd and much else besides. A funny, funny book with a few pointers to further thought. The illustrations also mean its quite fun to flick through.There aren't really any other books much like this I can think of but works in peripherally similar veins include;The BFI casebook on the Exorcist by Mark KermodeVALIS, The Divine Invasion, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K Dick, In search of VALIS by Laurence Sutin, An Inspector Calls by JB Priestley,Why is John Lennon wearing a skirt? by Claire DowieSwimming to Cambodia by Spalding GrayLaughter in the Air by Barry Took