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Cosmetics are morally neutral. Three minor, allegorically moral characters affirm this in I Am Not Gog, and I explain how in this month's insight at matthewjameshunt.uk (12th May, 2019). These are my own lip-trimming scissors, by the way.

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When revolution was fomented over breakfast in a Cleethorpes bed and breakfast. An insight into the novel I Am Not Gog and the way society’s consent is manufactured...

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Lydia Japhethson's Name. The image here is of an early sketch by Su Koh when brainstorming designs for the cover of I Am Not Gog. It depicts the main character, Lydia. The linked blog at matthewjameshunt.co.uk discusses how her name came about and what it represents allegorically.

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Coincidence and the subconscious in writing fiction. When the pen goes its own way and surprises the writer years after the fact…

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This image is a table of the hierarchy of evil represented allegorically in the novel I Am Not Gog, explained in the linked blog (Oct 2017) at matthewjameshunt.uk

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Huge thanks to Scott Hughes and all at @onlinebookclub-org for making I Am Not Gog Book of the Day yesterday. The best part was engaging with so many enthusiastic readers! Hundreds of them! It was so heartening. Many thanks to all those lovely readers who supported the book with comments etc, and thanks to all those who downloaded the book. So many new readers! It's like making hundreds of new friends. Can't wait to read your reviews. Bravo!

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This is the lake in Cleethorpes Country Park, a location in the novel I Am Not Gog. The photo was taken on a research trip in 2006. This blog looks at the third allegorical strand running through the novel: that of the desert wanderings of the ancient Isrealites.

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The second in a series of blogs examining the allegorical strands of the novel I Am Not Gog, The picture here is The Prophet Ezekiel by P.P. Rubens. Louvre. Image by Jean-Pol GRANDMONT (cropped).

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Here’s a blog looking at the first strand of allegory in the novel I Am Not Gog, drawing on central Eurasian mythology.

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This is an introduction to the different strands of allegory running through the novel I Am Not Gog.

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Here’s how mad editing made me – when numbers take control of the process.

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Three of fourteen collages hung in the 'Church Studies' section of the Smoke on the Bottom exhibition of Larry Bell's work at White Cube, Bermondsey.

Some very mysterious processes going on in the creation of these things. At some stage, a 'vacuum thermal evaporation machine' is used.

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Such economy, poise, and presence in this Head Study, 2014, by Boo Saville. Shown recently at Newport Street Gallery, from the Murderme collection.

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Yellow Flower Attachment, 1989, by Angus Fairhurst. Shown at Newport Street Gallery recently.

A curious effect on the eye.

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A Landscape with Monks at Prayer, by Alessandro Magnasco, d. 1749. Part of Hirst's Murderme Collection shown at his Newport Street Gallery.