AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES
Welcome to the PHILOSOPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY
of
MY SOUL ON ICE
by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital
Media
A link to which follows the brief introduction below:–
This project combines autobiographical
with philosophical material in such a way as to harmonize with the author’s
customary approach to anything remotely resembling an autobiography which, as
on previous occasions, could not materialize were it not for his ongoing or, in
this particular instance, definitive commitment to philosophy, which has always
been his raison d’ętre for writing and therefore justification of anything
else, including autobiography. In this, the third such project, the
combination of the two approaches to literature, reminiscent in a way of Henry
Miller, is brought to a veritable apotheosis, and it would be no surprise if
this paradoxically turned out to be Mr O’Loughlin’s last hurrah – a fitting
climax to a brilliant vocation. – A Centretruths editorial.
Copyright © 2012 John O’Loughlin
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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 Aldershot-based 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 by his mother upon the death and repatriation of
his ethnically-conservative 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 up
to London and went on, via two short-lived jobs, one of which was at Ivor
Mairants Music Centre on Rathbone Place, 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) an ABRSM Gd.4 piano exam, he eventually became
responsible for booking examination venues throughout the British Isles. After a brief flirtation with
English and History A'Levels 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-cum-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 penned numerous titles of a philosophical nature,
including Devil and God
(1985–6), Towards the
Supernoumenon (1987), Elemental
Spectra (1988–9), Philosophical
Truth (1991–2) Maximum Truth (1993), The Soul of Being (1998), Point Omega Point (2002), The Dialectics of Synthetic Attraction (2004), The Centre of Truth
(2009), Musings of a Superfluous Man
(2011) and, more recently, Atoms and Pseudo-Atoms (2014) and The Black Notebooks (2015). John O'Loughlin is a life-long bachelor who has lived at various addresses in the London borough of Haringey since 1974.
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