Amanda || eastofreaden
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Alan Moore:
Out of all of your amazing characters, who do you think is the closest representation of yourself/who do you identify with the most?
Alan Moore
To a considerable extent, it would be fair to say that every character I’ve written – male, female, human, alien, good, evil or otherwise – is to some degree a speculative extension of myself, because that, in my experience, is the only way to write truly convincing characters: you find some forgotten or suppressed facet of your own persona, and then you inflate that and carefully build it up into a credible character type. However, the character in all my fiction that is consciously the most closely based upon myself is Alma Warren, an unreasonable and post-menopausal female artist who is the elder sister of the main character in my forthcoming novel Jerusalem. That, as near as I can manage from the limited perspective of being inside myself, is pretty much me – although in real life I’m a lot more physically beautiful, obviously, and a lot less vain.
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Sonny
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Alan Moore:
Hi Alan! I've been looking forward to reading Jerusalem for years now and it always seems to be on the cusp of being completed. What stage is the book at now? Are you excited about it finally being finished? What can we expect when it's finally published? Many thanks and much love, Sonny
Philip Hemplow
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Alan Moore:
Hi Alan. You've said (correctly, so far as I can see) that the advent of mass communication has led to the death of any discernible counterculture. Is this because a counterculture needs an element of insularity in order to thrive - the 'cult' aspect of it, I suppose - that the internet does not afford? Or is it the result of a larger, more depressing shift in society, priorities, ways of thinking etc? Or: other!
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