FISH-WORSHIPPING - AS WE KNOW IT
Neil K. Henderson
When the history of the third millennium is written one of
the most significant events will undoubtedly be the rise of Fish-Worshipping
from a fringe cult to mainstream religion with billions of followers.
But will history record that it began here.?
Fish-Worshipping -as we know it - is more than simply a parody of religio-fanatical
mumbo-jumbo and the plethora of sects, cults, the off-shoots and under-arm
designer salvation packages readily available in the great spiritual
supermarket of twenty-first century confusion. No - it is to be hoped
that "FISH-WORSHIPPING - AS WE KNOW IT" is an entertaining and consciousness-expanding
entity in its own right. This is a fully integrated surrealo-pataphysical
system of 'belief' (or organised suspension of disbelief) with its own
internal subjective reality. It has its own set of principles, its
own history and mythology, its own peculiar non-personalities, its sources,
texts and justifications.
NEIL K. HENDERSON describes himself as: under-arm poet, plastic mac mystic,
humorist and investigative thought-twister.
Born in Glasgow in 1956, he was educated at Glasgow University, graduating
in English in 1977. He once worked as an assistant lexicographer
on the University's Historical Thesaurus of English. Since then he has
written numerous poems, short stories and uncatagorisable articles (even
venturing into the art of collage making), which have appeared in the British
small press and occasionally in America and Australia. In his present
desperate quest for pataphysical solutions to the twentieth century, he
has taken to knitting interesting sections of his dreams into multi-layered
intellectual vests, in hopes that such fine spiritual undergarments might
keep out the cold dreariness of modern conceptual sterility. But
Neil has his serious side, too - when he likes looking through dead animals
for maggots.
