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Great look at Peter Sellers in 1964.

“People lived out their lifetimes, I reflected, taking strange actions, never aware that their actions were motivated by some Operator.” –𝑂𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠

Precarious.

"Has anyone written anything good on the phenomena of the 'cult author'?"
    --@mckenziewark.bsky.social
My answer: Minor British Novelists & Frivolity Unbound.
Excavations stands more or less at the beginning of the "cult author" phenomenon. In France this started with the Symboliste poets & the English literary world followed them closely (usually taking sides).
James Branch Cabell's career is also instructive. The scifi author Michael Swanwick wrote a book on him in 2007 (What Can Be Saved From the Wreckage?) but i haven't seen it.
You want a real cult there's Stefan George.

Hungarian March.