His whole life was spent delineating a very
personal, idiosyncratic vision.
And now, the Dragon Page is happy to be added to
that list.
Are all your novels influenced by such wildly
diverse sources?
These days I aspire only to be a thrift-shop
dandy.
ML: Are you talented in any other artistic mediums,
such as painting or sculpture?
Pornography is not a thing, however, or even a
collection of things. I hope to write other stories set in the Babylon universe. I
come down, with some vested interest here, I suppose, on the side of eccentric
vision. But were all killers, in regard to the animal kingdom, at
least.
I would like to thank Richard for taking the time
to answers these many probing questions.
The nail polish did indeed prove wondrously
efficacious. And at such times she is as uncompromisingly physical as she is
real.
The other - a secret world - is my refuge. The last
book you read was BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY and it stuck with you. Which of your
novels do you feel has had the most cultural impact?
And I like to think of myself as a somewhat camp
exponent of linguistic dandyism.
It has been the books nature, however, to force
itself upon people.
When Im in the Far East, however, I simply call
myself a Christian.
In other words, was it a natural byproduct of your
need as a writer to break new ground. The other - a secret world - is my
refuge.
What is it about Vladimir Nabokovs writing and
Baudelaires poetry that you admire? Now that you have returned to your East End
roots, has your opinion of your homeland changed? And finally, perhaps, its a story
of death as religion.
And I can appreciate jokes that are funny simply
because theyre so awful.
What is it about Vladimir Nabokovs writing and
Baudelaires poetry that you admire?
And I like to think of myself as a somewhat camp
exponent of linguistic dandyism. Organized religion is so often
repressive.
ML: Ive heard that your writings have been compared
to fellow Englishman William Blake.
You knew writing in second person would be a
challenge. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most
irreplaceable of beings.
Suffice to say, they do inflict
themselves.
I would like to thank Richard for taking the time
to answers these many probing questions. Manifest, she is no proverbial flash of
lightning.
And whatever delight they communicate is allied to
violence. Or more pertinently: What kind of brothel do we wish to live in?