About Brian Robert Pearce and the Labyrinth Busker journal:

MY HOMEPAGE: www.brianpearce.com

After the labyrinth

This journal takes you onto the streets of Europe. It introduces you to people dismissed by society as its dregs. It introduces you to a nobility within these dregs that surpasses society. I can not explain this journal. 750,000 words. 55 segments that would take me a couple of hours to read per segment [approx.] It covers an astonishing ammount of ground in plot and searching. To read it in its entirety is to be changed on all levels until a complete new overview of life is there to be had. It is descent into the madness of Rimbaud until all senses are deranged. It is to emerge understanding only parts of it, yet seeing the whole as a re-assurance of our immortality.

Labyrinth Cataclysm

Driven by despair, after the death of my parents, the loss of my job and the collapse of my marriage, I surrendered all and plunged myself, guitar on back, into a one way journey to Belgium. To survive, or not survive. I didn't care. Into the Labyrinth, with a torrent of inner grief at missing the joy of seeing my daughter grow. It was all a bit like joining the French Foreign Legion. To forget - and with the half expectancy to die. The will to live had gone. The journal begins one and a half years on. It concentrates on my life as a busker and a songwriter, but the social observations and experiences fire my creativity...building curiosity about ever widening avenues of questions.

Isolating Soul

It is an attempt to make a neutral study of the soul.... to isolate it and recognise its actions, or non-action. By analysing the four categories of psyche---mind,body,heart,soul----within situations I encounter---- the journal came to remarkable new ways of assessing relationships and the activity level of the psyche represented by soul. When my neutrality becomes compromised this can also be read as an inadvertent study. If the journal is read in this light, reams of additional observation can be made. The journal obeys one philosophy----move forward. It is this that lends it strength because my writing style, outlook and personality are constantly in flux.

Know Thyself?

The final analysis of this epic personal self-discovery is that to 'know thyself' is impossible, given the short span of life mortality lends us.... because to look inside any individual is to discover ever more smaller and complicated facets of thought. To best highlight this I suggest you say one word to someone and then try to remember every thought that invaded your mind, on upper and inner levels, during the utterance of that one word. Imagine how much information your body needs to be able to lift one finger, or to draw one breath. Add this to the instinctual assessment of the person you spoke to... plus awareness of others around you and the the flora, fauna and physical world surrounding you. What part did the soul play? If any....?

Labyrinth Judgement

In essence, I am saying that to explain one moment of a person's life could take an entire book to complete. It would be boring... unless that secret, seemingly irrational element within us... the soul... is aroused by that moment. In the journal there is a constant stream of moments where my soul is aroused by the moment. There is a constant stream of moments where the souls of others are aroused. To finish, here is a question:- Is life [A]...a search for answers? Or [B]... a search for questions?

Online Magazine

I would like to say welcome and thank you to visitors of this site.I have completed other sites and I urge you to view them by clicking on the links page of this site.

Take the journey through the Labyrinth with me.

In effect, the journal is that - journalistic.

It can be treated as a magazine/newspaper - with articles of variable subject matter. I rely on you to feedback on what journal substance most appeals. Otherwise I must just follow my nose through the masses of journal material and hope you like the result.

Whether you want a long story (entire book from journal), short story (selected entries),articles,lyrics or want to hear some of my 'on the road' recordings of my music:

go to the Links section - choose - enjoy...

About Brian

Brian busked the streets and bars of Europe between the years 1994 and 2000. In addition he busked in New York while participating in the TIGHTROPE musical, a play written by Ken Post [ with Bonnie Burns].

The journal exists, at present, as approx. 750,000 hand written words formatted in about 55 segments (five segments are now online)- or as audio read out with musical background [for mood] on audio cassettes, using a Sony cassette-corder TCM-939. Rough, but on the road 'live' feel about it. The journal is potentially commercial, but it awaits presentation clues etc...

How did Brian become the distracted Hare racing against the Tortoise? What was born from the death of Lone Wolf? What was the monster that rampaged amongst the inner cities of Brian? What propelled Brian into the Labyrinth in '95? In what way did Brian become Merlin aiding Prince Arthur to extract a sword from a stone? What was the Green Busker looking for? And why? What resulted from Brian using himself as a 'muse'?

Why not find out?