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This volume of aphoristic philosophy brings
to a 'judgemental' head a loose quartet of works beginning with The Free Testament of a Bound Genius,
and has been subtitled 'As Testamentary Evidence of a Free Genius', since it
rather departs from the terminological bounds set by the aforementioned work,
not to mention the two intervening ones, Revelationary
Afterthoughts and Revolutionary Afterthoughts, as it
explores, in some detail, the use and applicability of common slang and
verb-noun expletives from a comprehensively exacting philosophical standpoint,
with many interesting and novel conclusions, some of which might even
contribute towards undermining the mindless alacrity with which certain persons
go about denigrating others in carnally reductionist terms.Therefore with Judgemental Afterthoughts
I have, in a sense, 'judged' such terms, however irrational their common usage,
and, I trust, brought some logical sense to bear on them, thereby removing them
from the pit of vulgar or obscene slang in which they tend, with unthinking
people, to languish.But that is not all I have done in this
highly demanding text; for the reader will soon discern that I have a gift for
parables and metaphorical irony which should shed some light on recent history
and the contemporary political scene most especially, thereby preparing the
ground for progressive, radical change in the decades and centuries to
come. Finally, I have returned to one of my favourite subjects, which
might be described as the ideological or ontological understanding of
literature in respect of its four principal branches, viz. drama, poetry,
prose, and philosophy, and have, with the assistance of my customary elemental
and axial theories (here brought to a veritable apotheosis), endeavoured to
shed some light on their differences, in both gender and classterms,
thereby indicating the path which leads not only to the understanding of
literature in a deeper and wider sense but, hopefully, to its eventual
overcoming on the most synthetically artificial basis, with especial reference
to philosophy of the utmost truth-oriented order which, with me, attains to an
all-time peak of metaphysical perfection which should suffice to expose the
poetic half-truths and perhaps, indirectly, see off the dramatic lies and
prosaic half-lies in the difficult but interesting times ahead. – John
O’Loughlin.
John
O’Loughlin was born in Salthill, Galway, the Republic
of Ireland,
of Irish- and British-born parents in 1952. Following a parental split partly
due to his mother's Aldershot origins (her father, a Presbyterian from Donegal,
had served in the British Army), he was brought to England by his mother and
grandmother (who had initially returned to Ireland with her daughter upon the death of her husband after a lengthy marital
absence from Athenry) in the mid-50s and, having had the benefit of private
tuition from a Catholic priest, subsequently attended St. Joseph's and St.
George's RC schools in Aldershot, Hants, and, with an enforced change of
denomination from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been put into
care with a children's home by his mother upon the death and repatriation of
his ethnically-protective grandmother, he went on to attend first Barrow Hedges Primary School in
Carshalton Beeches, Surrey, and then Carshalton High School for Boys in Sutton, where he
ultimately became a sixth-form prefect. Upon leaving high school in pre-GCSE
era 1970 with an assortment of CSEs (Certificate of Secondary Education) and
GCEs (General Certificate of Education), including history and music, he moved
to London and went on, via two short-lived jobs, one of which was at Ivor
Mairants Music Centre, to work at the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of
Music in Bedford Square, where, with some prior experience himself of having
sat and passed (with merit) a Gd.4 ABRSM piano exam, he eventually became
responsible as a clerical officer (gd.1) for booking examination venues throughout Britain and Ireland. After a brief flirtation with
further education at Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, where he was
then living, he returned to his former job in the West End but, due to a
combination of personal factors, not the least of which had to do with the
depressing consequences of an enforced return to north London, he left the
Associated Board in 1976 and began to pursue a literary vocation which, despite
a brief spell as a computer and office-skills tutor at Hornsey YMCA in the late '80s and early
'90s, during which time he added some computer-related NVQs to his other qualifications, he has
steadfastly continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976), Cross-Purposes (1979), Logan's Influence (1980), Sublimated
Relations(1981), and False
Pretences (1982). Since the mid-80s John O'Loughlin has dedicated
himself almost exclusively to philosophy, which he regards as his true literary
vocation, and has accordingly penned many titles of a philosophical nature,
including Devil and God
(1985–6), Towards the
Supernoumenon(1987), Elemental
Spectra (1988–9), Philosophical
Truth (1991–2) and, more recently, The Best
of All Possible Worlds (2008), The Centre of Truth
(2009), Insane but not Mad
(2011), and Philosophic
Flights of Poetic Fancy (2012).
