John Michell

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  • Dreaming to Some Purpose: An Autobiography

    Colin Wilson

    Century, pp. 402

Colin Wilson is a very great man, ‘the only important writer in Europe’. That is his own estimation, and I do not quarrel with it because Wilson’s self-esteem is not just vanity but necessary to his career. As he sees it, the pattern of our lives is created by ourselves through the use of imagination and will.

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