My customers and their friends kept asking me if I'd read the comic fantasy novels of Robert Rankin:eventually I asked someone in the market: Have you read any Robert Rankin? -yes? ,well I make ocarinas......this is a little one (play tune)-what did you think it was?-The gateway to another dimension? -well, I suppose it is.
So,I bought the Brentford Trilogy and was introduced to Hugo Rune and five or six other novels that have spawned a fanzine cult
of very considerable scope. The ocarina played by Rune is depicted as a mystical object in every novel I have read so far, - and quite right too !