![]() The Resistance isn’t the only group trying to harness the manifs Nazi attempts to summon futurist artwork to its intended fascist ends have failed, but the devil church is working on something. ![]() Whereas the conventions of literary fiction might have compelled Miéville to make the story about the Thibaut’s personal growth, in speculative fiction characters are often asked to take extraordinary action in order to keep their messed-up world the same. The Last Days of New Paris is a short book at under 200 pages. All these forces collide in the what-if capital. And, via their new diabolic Christian church, the Nazis have enlisted giant demons, who are ferocious but mostly just want to go home. The members of Main à Plume feel an affinity with the manifs, and they use their surrealist magic (and guns) to resist the occupation government. Now (1950), these art “manifs” wander the streets like large dangerous beasts. The power contained therein explodes (the “S-bomb”) at the famous cafe Les Deux Magots, manifesting art images into reality and opening a rupture with Hell at the same time. ![]() In 1941 (nine years before we’re introduced to Thibaut), an acolyte of occultist Aleister Crowley has captured in a spirit battery the energy from a surrealist bull session led by Andre Breton himself. ![]()
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