Darran Anderson slashes away at many of the myths surrounding Cocteau Twins while revisiting their glorious second album
The idea of telecommunications existed long before the telegraph and the telephone, or at least the desire was there. Before the development of wire, radio and optical communication, attempts at immediate long-distance connection were supernatural rather than mechanical, though science and bunkum had yet to be strictly differentiated (Isaac Newton, for instance, was an alchemist as well as a physicist and mathematician). The Tudor magus, necromancer and proto-scientist John Dee embodied this sense of visionary credulity. He was a figure canny enough to suggest the infernal idea of the British Empire to Queen Elizabeth, while also being partial to virtually every esoteric swindler...
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