Alan Garner chat transcript

[altariel]

Thank you to the wondrous katlinel for directing me to this transcript of a webchat with Alan Garner, in which land, language, writing and history are discussed, and the phrase "Mabinogiongoing plans" is coined.

communicator, this remark may interest you, about not-writing:

"I look on the 'down' as an imposed period of hibernation that allows the unconscious and creative mind to overcome the rational intellect."

Comments

[communicator.livejournal.com]

I haven't had a chance to read that yet, but I wanted to just say thanks for that link. He refuses to use Lithium to control his bipolar disorder. I don't know whether he's right to make that decision or not, but it must be linked to his idea of depression as fallow/mulching period.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

There was a TV programme a few years back where they put Barney Sumner from New Order on Prozac to see if it affected his creativity.

[communicator.livejournal.com]

Jeez, what happened?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Embarrassingly, now I've mentioned it, I can't actually remember. I think IanG saw it, I'll try to remember to ask him about it.