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“There is evidence that a mystical, clairvoyant faculty of a most practical kind is commonly taken for granted in many ‘primitive’ societies, from pre-Communist Tibet to the Hebrides; and is merely bred out and killed off by industrialism, compulsory education, and the belief that every question has an answer.”
― R.B. Russell, Robert Aickman: An Attempted Biography

“Aickman was also to say that he appreciated Douglas’s ‘conviction that the unaesthetic is ipso facto bad’.”
― R.B. Russell, Robert Aickman: An Attempted Biography