I like a great degree of compression. I like to mix lateral steps with forward ones. I don't want the prose ever to feel simply functional - at least not for any stretch.
The real past can traumatize us, but so can the real future. - Michael Helm
The real past can traumatize us, but so can the real future.
- Michael Helm
We want to know that we're not alone with our loneliness or loss. - Michael Helm
We want to know that we're not alone with our loneliness or loss.
Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level. - Michael Helm
Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level.
Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times. - Michael Helm
Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times.
We're getting used to reality and fantasy passing into each other. Much of the border between them has been erased. - Michael Helm
We're getting used to reality and fantasy passing into each other. Much of the border between them has been erased.
We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded b… - Michael Helm
We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded b…
Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality. - Michael Helm
Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.
The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry. - Michael Helm
The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.
Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was. - Michael Helm
Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was.
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