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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The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews 
The Bones of Small Mammals: Scott McNee
“‘We need to speak to you about an incident, Mister James.’”
The story of this MR JAMES. It somehow reminds me of my own beachcombing where I live: the pier, the grey skies, but, even in my old age, I have not yet fallen out with my wife of a half a century’s standing, but what I see in this story is my doppelgänger or a witchfinder’s witchfinder, and his own pickings in a complex ‘globster’ or gestalt of meaning’s goo, found on the beach, and now in this story, amidst the zigzag slopes of destiny, I sense. A presence that threatens itself. Thankfully my children have no children. This great story truly stinks. Makes me think it is the fell obverse of my nightjar.
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Above review from here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/11/25/vastarien-vol-5-no-2/#comment-26079