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• I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural products of the time include some pretty dour kitchen-sink dramas of the A Kind of Loving variety. (This kind of film seems disillusioned with the sixties before they've even really begun.)

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  War, Drama, Kitchen

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• I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I'm not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in my life, I suppose it is just this weariness, this sense that it is more fulfilling not to exist, to efface all traces, than to limit oneself to the determined expression of manifestation.

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  Expression, Limits, Determined

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• I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab.

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  Thinking, Dying, Rays

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• I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with the fact that actually, I was born into the middle of history - the rather grimy normality of the 70s, which did, indeed, retain some traces of human innocence, but were also girded about by the demons of experience.

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  Vacuums, Facts, Innocence

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• [Antinatalism ] seems to oppose the idea of writing anything at all. To reproduce is to pass on genes. To write is to pass on memes. In that sense, it really is a kind of reproduction, which antinatalism should, theoretically, oppose, or at least which I feel that it opposes emotionally in my own experience.

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  Writing, Ideas, Kind

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• I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

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  Sea, Special, Landscape

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• I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.

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  Age, Born, Colour

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• I'm more a dog person than a cat person.

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  Dog, Cat, Persons

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• I've never been baptised.

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• My favourite tea is lapsang souchong.

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  Tea, Favourite

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• I never seem to find what I'm looking for, though. I suppose I feel, these days, too aware of schedules and things, to let myself get lost in the rain. Anyway, I came back home, and it was still raining, and as I was approaching the driveway of the house, and the front garden with its bushy flower bed, I caught a cooking smell from somewhere on the air. I don't know why, exactly, but it appealed to me as a Nagai Kafu moment.

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  Rain, Flower, Home

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• Another part of the rejection I mention was the realisation that Buddhism quite simply ignores or dismisses a whole hemisphere of human experience that finds expression in and is enshrined by the mystery religions.

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  Buddhism, Expression, Rejection

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• [My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and that one bland monoculture does not swamp everything.

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  Diversity, Doe, Culture

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• As children in the seventies we were told about nebulous 'strangers'. By definition, we didn't know who these strangers were, and we didn't know what they wanted to do, but only that they were sinister. I think that was the stage the seventies were at.

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  Children, Thinking, Definitions

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• [My muse] feels nostalgic for Japan, and, perhaps strangely, for the pioneer days of America.

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  Japan, America, Pioneers

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• Quizá también pueda añadir algo sobre el entorno rural de ¡Recuerda que eres una bola única! El campo es un lugar -en términos mitológicos y quizá muy reales- donde se mezclan la inocencia y el pecado. La gente del pueblo lo considera idílico, perezoso, libre de delincuencia urbana y problemas sociales. Pero quienes crecen en el campo pueden contar historias que a menudo sorprenden a quienes crecen en las ciudades.

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  Country, Growing Up, Real

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• Lots of things were there [in the seventies], in the social experience, but not quite named, lurking like a stranger on the edge of the playground.

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  Stranger, Social, Playgrounds

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• If there is innocence on Earth again, I tend to imagine it in more [Henry David]Thoreau sort of terms.

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  Earth, Innocence, Imagine

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• People didn't talk about paedophiles in the seventies, I don't think.

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  Thinking, People, Seventies

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• I feel like the seventies was a decade where things ran out, and where other things set in. There was just a lurking graininess and seediness about the decade, a slight grogginess of the hangover from the sixties.

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  Hangover, Feels, Ran

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• I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.

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  Loss, Oil, Scandal

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• I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in England but has Mediterranean ancestry.

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  England, Ancestry, Muse

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• If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.

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  Mean, Buddhism, Dwelling

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• I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that there is, in my life, a fundamental sense of conflict between something that I am calling 'Buddhism' and my creative impulse.

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  Buddhism, Order, Creative

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• I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there is a conflict between creativity and the Eastern form of enlightenment. I don't know if I'll ever finish that essay, because I had an experience, after I'd written two or three chapters, in which it seemed to me that my psychic antibodies decisively rejected Buddhism. Interestingly, the rejection felt as if it happened in Zen terms.

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  Book, Writing, Creativity

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