A couple of experiments I've done since begining this thread, based on the artist in the OP. I'm going to do a series of 'machinemals' ostensibly to play with the machine metaphor of life and hopefully point toward its inadequacies.
And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings This he said to me "The greatest thing You'll ever learn Is just to love And be loved In return"
I wholeheartedly agree. I think I was seven when we were read Weirdstone of Brasingamen each afternoon in school, one chapter at a time. Luckily there was a book fair at the school that week and I begged my mother to buy it for me and delighted in reading ahead the night before so that I knew what was coming before everyone else.
It would be hard to overestimate the impact his work has had upon me, from the early novels, through Redshift and his book of essays The Voice That Thunders to later novels like Strandloper, Thursbitch and Boneland. An astonishing, uncategorisable writer and essential reading for RI folk, I would have thought. There's no one like him. Unfortunately, apart from a few, his work is criminally under available in print.
A friend of mine worked on a number of projects with him a few years ago and I think he has hours of interview with Alan. I'll ask if he's released any of it and let you know where to find it.
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And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings This he said to me "The greatest thing You'll ever learn Is just to love And be loved In return"