After further reading I realise now that there was a konnektion between Kerr and another kultural reference in the Kompanion Volume. I wrote KV in a flurry of aktivity in September 2023, reeling from the changes in my work and home circumstances, tying up loose ends from my first book (Grapefruit Are Not The Only Bombs 2023), generating ideas for the next stages of the GANTOB project and getting to know my new funder, The Benefaktor.
This period was full of “green doors” – those branch points where life could have gone in a different direktion. As an anonymous projekt, and out of kash, I could just have melted away, and only a few people would have wondered what had happened to the book. Or I could have asked The KLFRS for an extension to my 23 September deadline and made an applikation to an arts funding body.
Instead, I ploughed on, forged my alliance with The Benefaktor and put the book out on skedule. What I hadn’t appreciated was that The Benefaktor was playing his games throughout that period, making in-jokes for his literary friends in Edinburgh, and laughing at my efforts as first-time author.
His first few posts on this blog alluded to various pairings and duos, from Drummond and Cauty to Lennon and McCartney and subatomic relationships. I had read these as a metaphor for our partnership, and my willingness to host his writing while I sorted myself out. I had missed another more subtle relationship that had been introduced by hook or by krook.
I wrote yesterday of my koncerns that The Benefaktor guided my first ever book drop subconsciously, with Judith Kerr’s Mog representing the first photographic evidence of my unexpekted meanderings north into Edinburgh’s New Town. And before that I noted The Benefaktor’s subterfuge in faking a Curt Finks story, identified eventually by the mention of Nigel Kneale’s Quatermass Xperiment. I wonder if I ever had kontrol of “my” projekt at all. Kneale (1922-2006) was a successful screenwriter, and was married to Kerr (1923-2019) (all the Ks, and a 23). I pore over both their biographies, noting a Dr Who konnektion and other possible leads. What is The Benefaktor playing at?
I realise that I need to go off grid. Today, with most of the KLF focused fraternity focusing on The Krossing, my main kommunikations will be by pamphlet, out of sight of The Benefaktor.
GANTOB
23 November 2023
Cover photo is from one of my earliest tweets. It features photo promoting The Wardrobe Ensemble adaptation of the classic book by Judith Kerr
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