Bøker av Christopher Scott Thompson

"The Book of Onei is not The Book," my father once said. I remember him still, walking beside me on that sunless beach-but was it before he had died, or after? "The Book of Onei is only a guide, a book of riddles that don''t always lead to any answers, a book of truths within lies. I have been to Onei many times, but I have never been to any of the cities or nations mentioned in the Book of Onei, nor have I seen their ruins, nor met their citizens. As far as I can tell they do not exist, and most likely they never existed-not even in Onei.""Then what is the Book of Onei?" I asked him. "Is it just a fraud?""The Book of Onei is both a key and a lock," he said. His face was haunted, as if he always listened and always waited-perhaps for a footfall. "Those stories mean something, but I do not know what. The Book of Onei hints at something, but I am afraid to ask."From Christopher Scott Thompson (author of Pagan Anarchism and If In Ruins We Must Live) comes The Book of Onei, an antinomian dream grimoire. The Book of Onei is a rare work of myth that is simultaneously fantasy and a ritual guide to your own dreaming.

Sorcerers of coal and oil,We invoked, they came.Never mind the prayers and praises,Last-ditch rages, guilt and blame.Gods as deaf as us have gathered:Storm and flame and wind.Now the gates of Ys are opened.Now the ocean rushes in.From Christopher Scott Thompson (author of Pagan Anarchism) comes a collection of mystic poetry for the punk, the rebel, the witch, and the dreamer. In his poetic works, myth-soaked urban alleys lead to ancient ritual sites of awakening gods, while the spirits of fallen rebels whisper their secrets into the dwellers of post-apocalyptic landscapes.

The most comprehensive book ever written on the art of fencing with the basket-hilted Highland broadsword, including every major technique and concept from broadsword and backsword masters Donald McBane (1728), Thomas Page (1746), Andrew Lonnergan (1771), Captain G. Sinclair (1790), Archibald MacGregor (1791), Henry Angelo (1799), John Taylor (1804), and Thomas Mathewson (1805).Includes:¥ Fundamental Skills¥ Plain Playing¥ Timing¥ Slipping the Leg¥ Slipping the Body¥ Double Attacks¥ The Feint¥ The Invitation¥ Actions on the Blade¥ Disarms¥ Counter-Disarms¥ Set Play¥ Loose Play¥ The Grounds of the Sword¥ Traversing Footwork¥ Double Weapons (sword and targe, sword and buckler, sword and dagger, etc.)¥ The style of the stage gladiators¥ The style of the Highland Regiments¥ The training curriculum of the Cateran Society¥ The history of broadsword and backsword fencing¥ Nearly 500 separate training exercises