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

[manna]

I don't see any inconsistency between liking one bit of the modern world, and disliking another.

There are ways of expressing it, though, which don't make my teeth itch by making the writer sound oh-so-very precious and special.