It's irritating, and it detracts from the real mavericks, the artists consigned to the outskirts, who had their own odd vision and stuck to it.
Like many before and since, he later scaled down his ambition to communicating, "my narrow, odd vision of the world as I see it at the time of writing... always in the hope that my audience might feel a bit less on their own in this big world, as I do when I read a real book or see a real play".
The London she moved through was – it was suggested – both a physical and a moral maze, a warren of squalid streets marked by odd visions: a grubby angel with swan's wings on his back, a crow-headed figure, a dying horse down on the cobbles.
Among other odd visions, he said he once dreamed he met Egypt's former president, Anwar Sadat, and told him that he would be president one day.
But on a morning walk into town, there appeared a vision: an odd, jeep-like vehicle, shocking blue in colour, clad in what looked like sheets of corrugated metal, with comically skinny tires, a canvas top and, embedded in the hood, a telltale double chevron, the mark of Citroën.
More's fantasy is an odd mixture of both visions, rational and libidinal.
It is an odd admission coming from Pennington, whose vision always seemed to extend well beyond the field.
Whatever his vision, Carpenter had chosen an odd moment to commemorate.
