"Larry O'Hara" & Friends: Anamorphosis - Stewart Home, Searchlig

"I Hear Voices"

When we listen to a person speaking or read a page of print, much of what we think we see or hear is supplied from memory. We overlook misprints, imagining the right letters, though we see the wrong one; and how little we actually hear, when we listen to speech, we realise when we go to a foreign theatre; for there what troubles us is not so much that we cannot understand what the actors say as that we cannot hear their words. The fact is that we hear quite as little under similar conditions at home, only our minds, being requisite material for comprehension upo a much slighter auditory hint.

Thus the process of perception is based on the same rhythm that governs the process of representation: the rhythm of schema and correction. It is a rhythm which presupposes constant activity on our part in making guesses and modifying them in the light of experience. Whenever this test meets with an obstacle, we abandon guesses and try again. But sometimes things go wrong, and an individual becomes so obsessed by the paradigm they've adopted that they find themselves unable to abandon preconceived ideas regardless of how much evidence piles up against them. We call such people mad, and Larry O'Hara provides a prime example of how a human mind can become deformed by fixed ideas. A staunch and thoroughly deluded CHristian, O'Hara is fully convinced that Stewart Home is a demonic shapeshifter from a hellish anti-Euclidean dimension!