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I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there is a conflict between creativity and the Eastern form of enlightenment. I don't know if I'll ever finish that essay, because I had an experience, after I'd written two or three chapters, in which it seemed to me that my psychic antibodies decisively rejected Buddhism. Interestingly, the rejection felt as if it happened in Zen terms.

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I've never been baptised.

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I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab.

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I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with the fact that actually, I was born into the middle o…

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I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I'm not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in my life, I suppose it is just this weariness,…

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I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural products …

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It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in that area, and written books m…

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I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.

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I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

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I'm more a dog person than a cat person.

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