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George Melly: Revolt into Style (Allen Lane/Penguin Press)

Geoffrey Cannon, Punch, 25 November 1970

"HERE LIES not only its origins, but its glory. It came, after all, out of a yearning for the marvellous, out of a need on the part of the educationally deprived to find a voice. It postulated, like the surrealists, that it was possible, through thought, to transform our perception of reality."

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