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His orders are that, apart from herself, the only thing constant is change, and he testifies that 'my pen, albeit it stinks of ignorance, faithfully speaks of deeds, some of which I have heard of, but most of which I have seen with my own eyes, and felt with my own skin.' 'In the Country of the Skin' is full of Godstuff. The language both initiates and communicates. Communicating what initiations? What is in front of your nose. And what was there from before birth, sweating with fear and joy-singing like monkeys and archbishops. Doors opening. Walls uncoupling. A long drink of acorn-juice for the know-all, to cure him of his malady. You with the apparitions, meet Dovetail Crime Robert, along with Silas, Teresa, Jonas, Sarah, the Apple-Colonel and Whanging Jill.' In the Country of the Skin' offers participation in a vision that sees beyond the opposites of life and death. To read it is to participate, to participate in it is to be renewed. 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Undaunted by her mystery, three suitors enter the Institute on the pretence that they are patients, and require to be 'facilitated' until they are well again: they are in fact intent on marrying Madame's money. They are told that they must find in themselves a madness so strange that it will make Madame laugh aloud; then and only then will she marry the fortunate suitor. The Institute was founded, the suitors discover, by a Dr David, who was blown to pieces in a terrorist bombing, but who may still be consulted in the cellar; and the members of staff include 'Sir' Geoffrey, a nude man who has discovered a new use for an old organ; and Daniel, a red-haired homosexual dwarf beemaster masseur who is mortally allergic to stings. Much of the set-up may be a put-up job to conceal Madame's murder; nevertheless, the woman in charge declares that she will marry one of these men, and the reader is invited to guess who that might be, and why he is chosen. In this novel Peter Redgrove combines a fresh look at the mystery story and the psychological thriller with a strategy that declares that whatever desperate people may invent in fantasy, it can never be quite untrue. The book comes with a new introduction by Norman Jope. 'With The Facilitators we are deep in wizard's country. The only measure of sorcery is whether or not it works, and when used in fiction it faces a double challenge, the fiction has to work too. Peter Redgrove is one of the few living writers known to me who can make this happen. He is not so much a mystic as an explorer into undiscovered human territory.'  (The Guardian) 'Peter Redgrove is a farceur given to psychic high-jinks beneath which runs a subsong of wild wisdom.'  (New Statesman) Peter Redgrove (1932-2003) worked in several interlinked fields: as a poet, novelist, playwright, and in psychological practice. 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Dying, he hypnotises his daughter, Angela, with his great Oscilloscope, and gives her a hypnotic command to find some means of bringing him back from the grave. How can Angela ever free herself from the posthumous personality of this terrible Father, who dies even as he holds her in the hypnotic trance? In this novel Peter Redgrove explores the fascinating world of the strange powers of the mind revealed by hypnosis. He examines the dilemmas of both hypnotiser and hypnotised, as it might be any parent and any child, and takes some side-swipes at television's power over us all. With his customary mixture of bizarre invention, profound feeling and sexual gusto, he shows how even such an awesome Father can be conquered. The book comes with a new introduction by Cliff Ashcroft. 'The author is a sorcerer who entices the mesmerised reader into the realms of magic and imagination. 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