Caroline – one of the earliest GANTOBers – is the first to complete questions to each of the 23 questions.
There have, of course, been answers from plenty of others along the way. I am going to need to set up a database to keep track of them all and work out if there is a way to cross reference them. There is plenty of time to answer the 23 questions in your own right – the strictly applied deadline is 23:23 on 30 June 2024.
Over to you Caroline.
Question 1 – Is work important for the soul?
Work is important for the soul, absolutely. There are many days when it’s awful, you feel unappreciated and frustrated at inequity but it gets you up and out and teaches you values and gives you a place in society.
Question 2 – What fuels your passion for blogging so?
I have no real passion for blogging. I am enjoying the Gantob experience but feel inadequate to blog myself and have little time to explore others’ blogs. Some blogs are just pish anyway.
Question 3 -What is the male ego?
I don’t understand what the male ego is. I think it’s confused with id. I grew up in a strange family where I stayed with my father and my 2 brothers after my mother left to have a midlife crisis. My sister, the eldest of 4, had already left. We lived on a farm. My best friend was a boy. I’ve never been a girly girl. Gender stereotypes never fitted my life and I feel when people talk about the male ego, I am only guessing they mean more the desires that to me are the id. I did marry a misogynist pig but I think he was just small minded and thick rather than his issues being about male ego.
Question 4 – What is rhythm?
Rhythm is balance, joy, energy, grounding.
Question 5 – Is it mathematics?
Mathematics is a nightmare. Beautiful, smart, nightmare. Not for me.
Question 6. Is all that glitters gold?
No. All that glitters covers more than gold. Personalities can glitter.
Question 7. When was the skull?
The Skull? A British horror film from the 60s or 1994 when I cracked my coccyx giving birth to my son.
Question 8. Do sparling still return to the River Cree, Galloway, each spring?
Never been to the River Cree, but I hope the sparlings are still there each spring.
Question 9. What are the two sides of the same coin?
Yin and Yang.
Question 10. What is Addiktion?
Addiktion – this is what I experienced last summer having been drawn into the Gantob experience by random luck and was hooked, I craved more and took time off my work at short notice to pursue it because it was all that mattered and it gave me such a high.
Question 11. What is the question?
The question is impossible. More answers bring more questions, it’s perpetual.
Question 12. When is enough?
Enough – when you’re about to break and just want to cry, or when you’re so content you just don’t need any more.
Question 13. What is the Root of Forty?
6.3245. Or your conception.
Question 14. Is modern art just bits I could knock up in my shed or does it have deeper meaning?
Modern art is shite. Literally. – elephant dung on canvas at Modern Art One, Edinburgh. I could get the dog to crap on a blanket. An edgy woman’s unmade bed? Deeper meaning – lazy cow. I could knock up far more interesting things in the shed.
Question 15. What is melodic?
Melodic – sounds that come together and speak to your soul.
Question 16. Does anybody have the sheet music (or the musical notation) for The KLF’s (or even Acid Brass’s) What Time Is Love?
No.
Question 17. Have pamphlets ever changed the world, and how would we know?
Pamphlets have the power to change people, inform people and people can make changes to the world and we would know because people talk.
Question 18. When is addiction?
Addiction is when you need something to fill a void, to make you better, physically, mentally, spiritually and you can’t keep going without getting it.
Question 19. Is it ever time for the Teletubbies?
Sadly, yes, I think there is. Just because some may not like or understand it, others do so yes, there must be a time for Teletubbies. (probably ruins my modern art answer).
Question 20. Where is your green door?
My green door is the door to a barn on a farm in the Scottish Borders. I wasn’t allowed to be there but it provided great excitement and opened to lots of adventures, to me it was like the wardrobe to Narnia.
Question 21. So what?
What? Get on board, enjoy the ride.
Question 22. GANTOBBING: How was it for you?
GANTOBBING was fab!! I felt energised, happy and youthful. Come the winter it became a source of stress and guilt and I struggled with my addiktion, life was getting in the way but gantobbing wasn’t the problem, I was.
Question 23. What is effort?
Effort is moving, thinking, listening, talking, living. Making time mean something.
This is all very weird really, a funny path. When I was in my teens I loved the KLF, felt more into it than my friends, I still love it and it’s brought me to here, just a bit bonkers. Oh how I wish I’d been at a Day of the Dead, followed the ice kream van or visited Jimmy Cauty’s Estate in Muirhouse, or was as cool and interesting as Ade Cartwright but I just have songs in my head, fun memories, my heart annoyingly on my sleeve and a basic honesty that means nothing in the world of art.
CAROLINE, 11 June 2024
We are approaching the deadline for the third book (23:23 on 30 June 2024). To earn a copy you will need to answer one of the 23 Questions and/or make a written or artistic contribution to the 52 Pamphlets. There is still time and we may need to go beyond 52 pamphlets (but not beyond 30 June 2024).
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