Well, here's some light reading suggestions for you.
A chance remark by a friend on twitter has led to me learning of the existence of a true heir to the surreal wordsmithing of the Bonzos' Vivian Stanshall. The wonder-writer's name is Sam Redlark.
The friend tweeted about a comment on a Guardian article which was wonderful, loopy and inventive, and really nothing at all to do with the article. She said "he has form" and pointed to the commenters' page. (For the Guardian, realizing that we may not want to slog through its wet and weedy articles, provides a link to a particular commenter's replies.)
Sam Redlark's comment page, worthy of a novel, is available here. A tiny sliver of his oeuvre is inserted as a picture. (On the Grauniad site, the headline for the article appears on the left, and is a link. The comment appears on the right. There is no requirement to read the article in order to enjoy the replies.)
I've found a couple of hints that Sam may have had the urge to spin webs of fancy before this year, when he discovered the Guardian's comment page. There's a long-abandoned blog by a Sam Redlark that has much of the same character, here.
There is also a reply to a Warren Ellis blogpost by a Sam Redlark that leads to an (also long-abandoned) LiveJournal by one "backwards7" here.
Put together it does seem to me that the author of Sir Henry at Rawlinson End has come to life again. (Though it would be too much to hope that Sam could have Vivian's mellifluous voice tones.)
