THE PREPOSTEROUS BOLLOX OF THE SITUATION
August 2012
“Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence.”
—Arabic proverb (via swellhouse)
Portrait of the Author as a Vurtual Man: Jeff Noon talks to London Calling’s Tom Hunter →
londoncalling.com
“I’m interested more than anything in borderzones, edges, transition states, weird linkages, crossbred life-forms, hybrid creations. I can’t really get excited in things after they’re settled into place. I love to place my work on the edges between states of beings, and to see what kind of stories might live on the various borderlines.”
Enthralling Books: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? →
boingboing.net
“And did you ever notice, the Voight-Kampff test (the test Deckard gives to determine humanity) doesn’t really use questions? Rather, Deckard describes a scene and the subject of the test reacts to it. There’s a really important lesson here: literature is our Voight-Kampff test, and it helps us to be human…
“Reading strengthens what clinicians call ‘empathic imagination’ — the ability to imagine the situation of another.”
