If any of you have read anything else I've written, and if you've liked it, then June, Jonathan, Joanne and myself will be very grateful if you would give a moment of your time, in silence, in respect of the man whose words gave birth to the words you have enjoyed so much. Eternity Weeps will be the first book he won't be giving me his own particularly dry brand of feedback on. Dad died just after Christmas 1995, a few weeks before this book was commissioned. And hopefully, eventually, I'll write more original stuff. But I did write others you may have read. I never did write a Doctor Who book like Charles Dickens. An astute observer of what we have come to :call the human condition. But I recognized that Dickens wasn't a name to be bandied about lightly. One day he read this dumb pile of crap I'd written about monsters and the end of the world and all the rest of it and he said, 'Why don't you do Doctor Who like Charles Dickens?' I didn't have a clue what he meant. I used to type them up painstakingly on an old Smith-Corona manual and draw a little felt pen cover for them and show them to Dad, who would duly read them and comment on them for me. When I was a kid I used to write stories. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior written consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. 'Doctor Who' series copyright © British Broadcasting Corporation 1997 Cover illustration by Peter Elson ISBN 7 2 Typeset by Galleon Typesetting, Ipswich Printed and bound in Great Britain by Mackays of Chatham PLC All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. An absolutely thrilling debut from this unholy Roman alliance.First published in Great Britain in 1997 by Virgin Publishing Ltd 332 Ladbroke Grove London W10 5AH Copyright © Jim Mortimore 1997 The right of Jim Mortimore to be identified as the Author of this Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Songs such as the pulsating ‘Away’, the promising single spin-off ‘Eternity’, which bears traces of Depeche Mode-like elements, and the dreamy, bittersweet ‘The Abyss’ are magnificent, extremely multifaceted darkwave numbers with a growing addictive factor and irresistibly appealing bleakness. This results in a multifaceted, dynamic and thoroughly captivating symbiosis. This atmospheric spirit is rounded off by minimalistic beats and synth melodies that are at the same time seductive, intensely celestial and which draw you into their spell. ![]() The tracks radiate a pleasant, occasionally nebulous coolness and have their roots in the early works of the Cure and Killing Joke right up to Joy Division and Bauhaus. ‘I Choose an Eternity of This’ is the first fruit from Rome’s creative sound forge, which comfortably assimilates three decades of musical history and which on these nine powerful album tracks concentrates on the essential, most important elements. Together the three thoroughbred musicians indulge their passion for sombre, romantic darkwave, mixed with cool industrial sequences and gently flowing melodic synthpop. The three protagonists behind the promising newcomer combo This Eternal Decay are actually well-known faces from the Italian wave scene, among them multi- instrumentalist and vocalist Riccardo Sabetti (Spiral69), bassist Pasquale Vico (Date at Midnight) and drummer Andrea Freda (Spiritual Front, Spiral69).
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