come up. These work alongside the twin themes of 'education' and 'morality', and the
influence and use of Drugs features prominently.
Rock music is or has been very important to many of the characters in the story.
threatens to take over his life again, when we first meet him he is writing about
films ...
Certain movies and some of their stars play their part in the story. Other aspects of
the popular media and its influence also present a theme running through the story,
which features, for instance, several actual episodes of BBC ONE's 'Friday Night with
Graham's gnostic beliefs and his ideas about 'evolution' and the acceleration of
Western civilisation into a period of what he calls 'High Chaos' present an ongoing
philosophical undercurrent.
Although the characters move around, even to different continents, a fictional
spiritual community in Wales acts as a kind of mirror in which the characters' often
unorthodox spirituality is reflected, or to which it is compared ... along with
existence of some kind of consciousness greater than our own influencing life on
Earth ...