Writer -- via Eyewear (the blog). "Wilson wrote and published around 100 books - he was a jobbing, hack writer, true - and he repeated his main idea endlessly. But it was a compelling idea, that extreme states of experience make us glimpse eternity, another better world. He was that rare thing, an optimistic existential thinker. It seems very strange that England's very own Poe - the critic as creative writer, obsessed with sex, murder, sci-fi, ideas, the uncanny, and religion, should not have been recognised as a nutty but essential figure on the landscape."
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