Welcome to the LITERARY FICTION of
MILLENNIAL PROJECTIONS
by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media
Links to the files of
which follow the brief introduction below:-
This fiction compilation,
dating from 1982, combines some sixteen short-prose pieces with subjects
ranging from musical evolution to Christmas trees, Black Holes to Esperanto,
and space travel to modern art. Of this
number, my favourite is the title piece, a fantasy projection into a millennial
future in which we enter the mind of a ‘superman’ who is preparing to undergo
an 'acid trip', view life in what is called the 'post-human millennium' from a
spiritual leader's standpoint as he grapples with his counselling
responsibilities vis-à-vis the superhuman flock, and sample a controller's
perspective on post-human life from the administrative sidelines. One could argue that this is my Brave New World, but it was with a view to rejecting Huxleyite cynicism that I set out
to fashion so positive a futuristic projection. – John O’Loughlin.
CONTENTS
MILLENNIAL PROJECTIONS
MUSICAL EVOLUTION
CONCERNING BLACK HOLES
A VERY CIVILIZED MAN
THE TWO LITERATURES
WISDOM
A PUBLIC WRITER
UNDERSTANDING SEX
SPACE PHILOSOPHY
UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
A PRIVATE INTRODUCTION
SPACE JOURNAL
THE SPELL
CONCERNING A TREE
MUSICAL THEORIES
TWO-WAY SWITCH
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A VISIT TO HELL
FROM THE DEVIL TO GOD
DREAM COMPROMISE
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John O’Loughlin was born in Salthill, Galway, the Republic of Ireland, of mixed Irish- and British-born parents in 1952. Following a parental split due to ethnic and other incompatibilities (they called her 'Mary Aldershot'), he was
brought to England by his mother and grandmother (who had initially returned to
Ireland with intent to stay following the death of her British-based husband) in the mid-50s and subsequently attended schools
in Aldershot and, following the death and repatriation of his Irish-born grandmother,
Carshalton Beeches, Surrey, where, despite an enforced change of denomination
from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been put into care by his mother, he attended a state school. Graduating in 1970 with an
assortment of CSE’s (Certificate of Secondary Education)
and GCE’s (General Certificate of Education),
including history and music, he moved the comparatively short distance up to London and went on, via two
short-lived jobs, to work at the Royal Schools of Music in Bedford Square,
where he eventually became responsible for booking examination venues. After a brief flirtation with Redhill
Technical College back in Surrey, he returned to his former job in the West End
but retired from the ABRSM in 1976 due to a combination of factors, including
ill-health, and proceeded to dedicate himself to a literary vocation which, despite a brief
spell as a computer tutor at Hornsey YMCA in the late '80s and early '90s, he
has effectively continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976),
An Interview Reviewed (1979), Secret Exchanges (1980), Sublimated Relations (1981), and False Pretences (1982). From the mid-80s Mr O'Loughlin has exclusively dedicated himself to philosophy, his
true literary vocation, and penned more than sixty titles of a
philosophical nature, including Devil and God – The Omega Book (1985-6), Towards
the Supernoumenon (1987), Elemental Spectra (1988-9),
Philosophical Truth (1991-2) and, more recently, The Best of All Possible Worlds (2008) and The Centre of Truth (2009). John O'Loughlin has continued, since 1974, to live at various addresses in Crouch End and Hornsey, north London, but would like, one day, to return to Ireland.
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