Gordon Darroch interviews Wu Ming 1 in the Herald Scotland:
GD: So are you using historic warfare to raise a point about modern warfare and the way it's been sanitised and turned into an export industry? Is that why the description of the violence is so explicit? I found some of the battle scenes had an epic, Virgillian quality in the way they described every slash and thrust.
WM1: Thank you for calling our writing "Virgilian", I'm a big fan of the Aeneid. The difference with the ancient classi...
GD: So are you using historic warfare to raise a point about modern warfare and the way it's been sanitised and turned into an export industry? Is that why the description of the violence is so explicit? I found some of the battle scenes had an epic, Virgillian quality in the way they described every slash and thrust.
WM1: Thank you for calling our writing "Virgilian", I'm a big fan of the Aeneid. The difference with the ancient classi...
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