Wednesday 4 June 2014

Is Scott Locklin a reincarnation of the guru Gurdjieff?



   

     George Gurdjieff (1866-1949)            My penfriend, Scott Locklin

Dubiously-inspired spiritual psychopath     http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/


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Note: I have modified the spelling of "Gurdjieff" in the original post - I had been using the name as given me by a fifth-degree Siberian Squirrel Shaman; which I received during a particularly arduous and torturous spiritual journey - but it turns out he was an erratic speller...

5 comments:

Bruce Charlton said...

Perhaps significantly - or perhaps not - the most popular Google prompt for Scott Locklin is "is an idiot".

I checked out my own primary Google prompt - for a long time it was "sacked"

http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/an-update-on-bruce-charlton-sacked.html

but today it seems to be "Mormon" - which is flattering for me; but must surely be irritating to real, baptised, active LDS members.

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

And now, thanks to you, a picture of Gurdjieff is now on the first page of Google Image Search results for "Scott Locklin."

Bruce Charlton said...

@Wm - Yes, a damning indictment of the inability of computers to detect humour - perhaps especially not of this whimsical English variety.

Clearly this post was not adequately 'labelled' as a joke - to clarify, I read and comment at Scott's blog and we fairly often exchange e-mails. He is sufficiently robust and ironic to enjoy this sort of pointless nonsense.

charlie said...

The rollicking prose at Takimag keeps me going back for more. Just as I keep coming back here for something.

Prose stylists who get sacked from other publications seem to congregate there.

Takimag is probably a good example of "dynamic sorting of readers" by their ability to tolerate offensive ideas and/or presentation.

Locklin really sparkles at his best--as do many of the Taki contributors (Takiteers?).

Rob said...

The old Private Eye trick of switching the names...("Are they by any chance related?")

I always assumed that picture that accompanied Locklin's articles in Takimag was an old photo he dragged out of somewhere, but apparently it is himself.