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Abraxas Unbound presents a veritable magic theatre of talent, with powerful, leading contributions from Colin Wilson on William Blake, T.E. Lawrence, Edmund Husserl, Phenenomenology and the Big Idea – a Molotov cocktail of consciousness raising, visionary madness and existential analysis. Furthermore there are three important essays by Adam Daly: on the Italian novelist, Gadda, on the lost genius of the 1930s, Lionel Britton, and on ‘Walking Stewart’, friend of Thomas de Quincey and walker extraordinaire. Two outstanding musical contributions, from Gary Lachman on ‘Plato and the Musicians’, and Euan Tait on his friendship with the composer, Howard Ferguson. Antoni Diller provides an arresting summation of the career of Stuart Holroyd, critic and scholar, and the philosopher, John Shand, supplies a supple appraisal of Colin Wilson’s philosophy. Mark Valentine evaluates the career and fiction of Lewis Grassic Gibbon.