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Category: Glen Duncan

We’re in the age of the series, trilogy, boxed sets.

Series, Boxed, Sets

Cheney, Rumsfeld – they were Shakespearean in their attitude of impunity.

If being a werewolf is really a curse, you’ve got to treat it honorably. If werewolves are going to carry on, there has to be an incredibly powerful force. There is the business of the craving, the hunger for the kill. It has to be deeply pleasurable and more than an appetite for meat. There has to be a sensual dimension to it.

Powerful, Treat, You

It wasn’t love at first sight. They ran into each other one morning in a sunny clearing in the forest. A few moments of stunned silence. `Glockenspiel,’ Adam pronounced, thinking (but with terrible doubt) he’d found another animal in search of a name. When Eve approached him, proffering a handful of elderberries, he threw a stick at her and ran away.

adam, bible, eden, eve, funny

The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.

Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere.

cynicism, feelings

The first horror is there’s horror. The second is you accommodate it.

adaptation, horror

You think horror enters spectacularly. It doesn’t. It just prosaically turns up. Even in the first seconds you know you’ll find it a room.

We go to the past to lay the blame – since the past can’t argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.

Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse – and the writer’s.

If you had a lot of money and you were miserable, you’d be miserable poor.

miserable, poor, rich

Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to?

shakespeare, tv