HOW THE DEAD LIVE (Serpent's Tail, paper, $14.95) is from his Factory Series, crime novels depicting 1980s London as the 10th circle of hell, as seen through the haunted eyes of a police inspector in the Department of Unexplained Deaths.
He had met Freberg through TV producer Bob Clampett, who wanted Butler to portray a little boy opposite a sea serpent in a live puppet show.
His new exhibition, Images and Oracles, will feature cult-inspired installations and a screening of his new film, The Dove and the Serpent, with a live score provided by Butler and Anger (we've seen a Butler/Anger collab before, and it's NOT something you want to miss), among others.
While the living serpents take life away, the copper serpent renews it.
The first sighting of a live oarfish was in 2001, and scientists speculate they could be the source for sea serpent legends.
In conferences, he sometimes describes the tradition of literature as a kind of living creature, a "serpent of books" winding its way through the centuries, that is clearly vivid in his imagination.
Management speak has been infiltrated into our lives, a loathsome serpent crawling into our bed at night and choking the life out of our language.
Why not, for example, have an evil spirit that lives in a forest or a giant serpent that lives in an ocean?
He had a tattoo of a serpent and a skull on his left biceps.
It is evident that the nun, or n, sign is a rendering of a serpent.
