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SUMMARY: A descriptive summary within 250 words could be obtained reducing the foreword I wrote for the back cover, and adding a few sort of "catchphrases" like they were from a commercial presentation. There has been much speculation about Syd Barrett's feelings, but what does Syd himself say about how he feels? In his song "Late Night" he says: Inside me I feel alone and unreal And the way you kiss will always be a very special thing to me

You have to get inside the song: he feels sad and witty at the same time, whether he is with someone or not. From the starting point of this duality, also quoting some of the other songs he wrote, we can set off on a journey to immerse ourselves in the lands Syd evokes in our imagination with "Opel", while he searches for someone or something in his own land.

Reading between the lines of intriguing lyrics, enjoy the evergreen poetry of the past and enrich your personal knowledge of the Australian precious stone, the opal, the Spanish enchanting island Formentera, the terrible Louisiana's First Great Storm, and many other things to add mind-blowing connections to Barrett’s work, like the coincidences, with the film Shine or with the poems by the American poet Mark Bigney, or like the deep connections with the philosophy around Sisyphus, adopted by Albert Camus, in his famous 1942 essay The Myth of Sisyphus, and even by a funny Indian mythological character, Naranath Branthan. I did my best to select the samples on pp. 15-20 of the proposal, but a correct introduction is much more important. For instance, I like the words used by the skilled author Julian Palacios for a much briefer essay: ''Pioneering research by Paul Belbin proved the Rosetta stone in decoding Syd Barrett’s song writing inspirations for one of his most beloved songs, ‘Octopus’. Belbin’s original 1996 essay, ‘Untangling the Octopus’ provoked a sea change in understanding Barrett’s work. Palacios has expanded on Belbin’s essay to further delve into the myriad origins of ‘Octopus’.'' Too often dismissed as a fantasist who collated drug driven word salad imagery, Barrett in time will assume his rightful place in the canon of English poetics, to which he made vital contributions.