“out of insecurity and boredom I developed an elaborate form of displacement activity, a self-estranging technique, creating what I called ‘angel trap stationery’ — paper painted with symbols and impregnated with scents designed to attract various powers and dominions of the air to aid me in the act of composition.”
Peter Blegvad, interviewed in The Believer, November/December 2009
i did that once but ended up with a lot of Anglo-Saxons instead.
I should note here that Blegvad, along with Edward Gorey and Samuel Beckett, was a decisive influence upon the teenage Mr Key of long ago.
Fascinating to speculate what an alternative universe ‘Kew Rhone’ would be like if David Byrne had sung and not Lisa Herman. Its one of my favourite albums.
Pound to a penny patchouli was involved.
O.S.M. B:52