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"I really liked him before he put his guitar on because of the way he carried himself," Manson added in Seconds. And Linton immediately felt like he fit in, image and all. Although some fans and critics were quick to brand the delicate-featured lad a goth, like all true goths he rejected the tag: "The whole goth thing. I think it's pretty cool," he admitted in Guitar World. Like Daisy before him, he had a taste for bands like The Cure, Bauhaus, and Siouxsie and the Banshees. "The goth take is kind of weird," he concluded. If folks were leveling the tag at him as a compliment, he wasn't going to get upset.
Linton's new name would be Zim Zum. Although some dedicated fans managed to turn up a fashion model and at least one serial killer who fit into the preexisting pattern. Manson had elected to reject the old system of nomenclature, as yet another significant step in the band's evolution. Paul O'Keefe deducted that this refers to the Kabbalistic term tzimtzum, the empty space God made (withdrew his presence from) in the universe, to make room for the creation.
"We felt almost since Marilyn Manson has transformed into Antichrist Superstar," Manson summed up in Guitar World, "he became a member of that entity and Zim Zum, unlike the names of the other members of Marilyn Manson, is a Hebrew term that refers to an Angel that was doing God's dirty work at the beginning of time. We felt that since he joined the band to complete this tour and continue on with us that he was doing the dirty work as well."
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Original title: Marilyn Manson
Paperback, 192 pages
Published: April 15th 1998 by St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 0312181337 (ISBN13: 9780312181338)
Edition language: English