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If there were people like Bill Drummond I would be one happy kid. Bill is the author of a handful of books, one-half of a reasonably popular pop group that has gone through at least half a dozen names, and, with the K Foundation, he burned a million quid.

One of his books is called BAD WISDOM. He wrote it with Mark Manning, lead singer of ZODIAC MINDWARP AND THE LOVE REACTION. The book contains Bill and Mark's conflicting accounts of their journey to the North Pole, where they plan to sacrafice an icon of Elvis and thereby save the world.

Chapter Two of the novel relates the story of Bill and Mark, along with their travelling companion and friend Gimpo, meeting Keith Richards in a bar in Finland. The bar is owned by the decaying corpse of Oscar Wilde, who attempts to molest Gimpo but only manages to engrage the poor lad. Gimpo hacks the immortal Oscar to bits and kicks his head around the room while the pieces of Oscar somehow manage to masturbate gleefully. There is also a lot of farting.

It's the sort of book you read with you're jaw hanging open, and it's the sort of book I read while wishing I had thought of that first. Like OFFERED by Kazuo Koike and Ryoichi Ikegami--it's the best Japanese graphic novel about descendents of Gilgamesh, the long-lost granddaughter of Hitler, and semen-filled mammoth tusks you're likely to find.

Read as many utterly bizarre books as you can.