Will Poetker
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Jo Walton:
Will you ever write anything with Aristotle as a character, or his works as a theme in your books? The same question applies to any other philosophers who work came after the time of Plato
Jo Walton
Aristotle, absolutely not. I hate Aristotle.
Other philosophers -- I have no plans at this time, but it's not impossible that at some future point it will seem like fun.
Some writers find a groove and are happy to write things in that groove. I get bored and it gets very difficult for me to write. I find it much more interesting to write books that are different from each other. Robert Graves talks somewhere about how his mother was delighted when he wrote *two* books about Claudius, and hoped he'd go on to write one about Nero and so on, that he'd finally found his subject. Lots of people do this, but Graves did not. And equally I'm not going to do Plato and then Aristotle and then work my way through philosophy. It's not at all the way I work.
Other philosophers -- I have no plans at this time, but it's not impossible that at some future point it will seem like fun.
Some writers find a groove and are happy to write things in that groove. I get bored and it gets very difficult for me to write. I find it much more interesting to write books that are different from each other. Robert Graves talks somewhere about how his mother was delighted when he wrote *two* books about Claudius, and hoped he'd go on to write one about Nero and so on, that he'd finally found his subject. Lots of people do this, but Graves did not. And equally I'm not going to do Plato and then Aristotle and then work my way through philosophy. It's not at all the way I work.
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Feb 10, 2016 10:03AM · flag