Novel as History, History as novel. Film-maker and artist without portfolio, Peter Whitehead centres a tale of espionage and illumination on the Beat Poetry Incarnation WHOLLY COMMUNION at the Albert Hall in June 1965.
 
Narrated by MI5 agent Milton Crookshank after Whitehead’s alter ego Patrick Walker slips into psychedelia-induced catatonia in the Egyptian section of the British Museum, “Tonite...” deals with nearly everything, including the infiltration and takeover of nascent Brit counter-culture by the American intelligence services. The spies, counter-spies and luscious under-age au-pairs.
 
 The narrative swaps energetically between notes, tapes, film and slash-punctuated stream-of-consciousness musings in a way which might be intended as a mirror of Whitehead/Walker’s fractured consciousness…  Under the Albert Hall dome where the prose is calmed by a beautiful and mysterious dancer and the visionary outpourings of Ginsberg, Corso and others. 
 
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