B.P. Gregory
As a knee-jerk reaction I want to offer the "oh, I'm just some plain ordinary citizen" defence; nope, no mysteries here, nothing, nup ... BUT
... if we pause our busy day, dim the lights and dare in hushed voices to be honest, everyone is a glorious, tangled, insane mess on the inside. Pretending to be safe and boring won't help you.
Sometimes I'm accused of being a terrible person, because my character was a terrible person who did horrible things and I admit, within the confines of my skull terrible events happened. I thought it up. I dreamed it. I may not LIKE it, but the page didn't vomit that forth spontaneously.
No matter how blandly dressed, how staid and nice, we're all just one crack in normality away from being centre stage in a grand, morbid mystery. Who would have guessed he was building an airplane in his garage? The elevator was only stalled for a second, where did they go? And the most important: why would they DO that, why why why?
... if we pause our busy day, dim the lights and dare in hushed voices to be honest, everyone is a glorious, tangled, insane mess on the inside. Pretending to be safe and boring won't help you.
Sometimes I'm accused of being a terrible person, because my character was a terrible person who did horrible things and I admit, within the confines of my skull terrible events happened. I thought it up. I dreamed it. I may not LIKE it, but the page didn't vomit that forth spontaneously.
No matter how blandly dressed, how staid and nice, we're all just one crack in normality away from being centre stage in a grand, morbid mystery. Who would have guessed he was building an airplane in his garage? The elevator was only stalled for a second, where did they go? And the most important: why would they DO that, why why why?
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Hello, Would you consider Lovecraft to be an influence on your work? From what I have observed so far, many of your themes strike me as cosmic in nature. If so, would you consider your writings to be as cynical as the philosophy of Cosmicism? As you have listed House of Leaves as an influence, do you consider that novel to have cosmic horror implications about the universe and mankind?
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