FIELDCLUB

Historical Agrosophy Archive

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Whither the Field Club? Field Club Revivalism Today - Marvin Talisker (700Kb)
'In his fine history of the Field Club movement, Fields of Vision: The Hidden Legacy of the Victorian Field Club(London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1928), Alexander Furnidge records that during the second half of the nineteenth century the southwest counties, heartland of the movement, still boasted twenty or so clubs. Although legal proscription meant that their activities had become clandestine, their existence remained common knowledge amongst locals...'

What did the Field Fathers believe? - Marber Spryling (1.9Mb)
'...This said, the founding article of the Principle Axiomatic is essentially a myth of creation: Maphusis gives birth to the world. However, the creation emerged, we are told, 'without a doubt, not from her womb, but from her arse'. This resoundingly heretical affirmation of course recalls the gnostic execration of the created world, and indeed the reasoning behind it follows similar lines: 'The created world, as ignoble, absurd and irresolvable as it is, as the Field Club founders reasoned, must as needs have as its originary locus the most ignoble of passages, the anus mundi...'