Des Lewis will be 77 years old on 18 January 2025
Those who have read these episodic brainstorming reviews of mine must know they are very personal — rough-shod and spontaneous. Synchronicity and anagram mixed. I know they are not professional, never potentially publishable other than in the madness of my head, but I do hope they show grains of dark truth and cosmic panache.
These Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews were founded in 2008.
‘What’s the loveliest word in the English language, officer? In the sound it makes in your mouth, in the shape it makes on the page? What do you think? Well now, I’ll tell you: E-L-B-O-W. Elbow.’ — THE SINGING DETECTIVE
“How shall a man find his way unless he lose it?” — Walter de la Mare
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Fresh Fictions, free to read HERE.
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THE NEW NONSCENIC
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The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews 
“And I had such high hopes.”
I have in the last few days conducted one reading skirmish so far. It starts with all the book’s forthcoming characters, some Real from perceived life outside this book and other characters Rolfe-fictional and yet more characters Real-Fictional from creative art created by Real others, all intervening regarding the meta-writerly Rolfe ego that has created them all retrocausally from the Author’s Note right at the end. Pink Buddha, Iranian Friend, some with foreign names. Others like Death, Kurt Russell from THE THING, Conan, by Crom! And many more. Even a character called Self-Doubt who must be me. And there I surely must leave this 300 page Book of Real-Absurdism. A new genre in embryo. When it finally takes off in the public consciousness, I shall come back and examine its important roots here in mature age. The book’s roots in mature age. Mine passed long ago.