Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing us, but we go to the water fountains in the centre of town looking for that, and we're turned away, sent to the ghetto.
Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets. - Hal Duncan
Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.
- Hal Duncan
Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse. - Hal Duncan
Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse.
Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the … - Hal Duncan
Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the …
I started thinking about the endless bullshit about quotas, and how certain types of character are fine "as long as it's important to the story," and… - Hal Duncan
I started thinking about the endless bullshit about quotas, and how certain types of character are fine "as long as it's important to the story," and…
Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake a… - Hal Duncan
Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake a…
I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more … - Hal Duncan
I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more …
Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing us, but we go to the water… - Hal Duncan
Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing us, but we go to the water…
Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings. - Hal Duncan
Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.
A 3K word story might well be done in some caffeine-and-nicotine-fuelled 36 hour session, and at the end of it, there'll be a few passes of editing r… - Hal Duncan
A 3K word story might well be done in some caffeine-and-nicotine-fuelled 36 hour session, and at the end of it, there'll be a few passes of editing r…
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