Alan Moore Interview: Lost Girls

[TordelBack]

Very good Moore interview over on the Onion AV Club.

Link: http://www.avclub.com/content/node/51180/print/" target="_blank">It's all filth, filth I tells ya...

[House of Usher]

That interview was entertaining and amusing. A god read.

[TordelBack]

"For this past 18 months, I've been blissfully involved with writing my next novel, Jerusalem, which will probably take me another couple of years to finish and edit. It's going to be over a half-million words, probably about 1,500 pages or something. As big as a book can be, if not bigger."

As a fan of 'Voice of the Fire', even that first 'difficult' chapter, I can't wait for this!  

[paulvonscott]

Great interview, I've read a few short ones recently, but that was a nice big one, with some width.

[Adrian Bamforth]

"That interview was entertaining and amusing. A god read."

Freudian slip?

ADE

[House of Usher]

An all too common one.

[Dudley]

"Sigmund Freud, frankly, I've not got a great deal of time for, because I think he was a child-fixated cokehead."

He does give good quote, that Moore, innit?

[Floyd-the-k]

I'd recommend to anybody working on their relationship that they should try embarking on a 16-year elaborate pornography together. I think they'll find it works wonders.

he does give good quote indeed!

[Floyd-the-k]

oh and there's a nice Moore picture. I worry that his rings are taking over his left hand.

somebody should post a link for the open-minded souls at the Byrnerobotics forum to have a look athttp://www.avclub.com/content/files/images/MirrorAlan.jpg">

[JimBob]

 i am a little concerned about lost girls,  I don't want to get lumped in with the Knights of Byrne, and i am aware that overpriced cartoon erotica isn't exactly mass market but my concern is that one of the things that comes accross in interviewing paedophiles in regard to child pornography is the idea that they are part of a hidden tradition which is tacitly accepted by parts of the mainstream  culture. Examples that are cited quite often are grown women in school uniform (ironcally a fairly common theme in the Sun), underage girls in pop videos presented as erotic images (Jo-jo iirc) and undercurrents in certain childrens films. theres also a fixation that they will eventually be accepted into the mainstream the way that homosexuality has been.
 While I don't think Lost Girls in itself will cause a direct problem, (although from what Moores saying I'm failry sure it's not for me)  I am concerned that some of the defences of it on the net will feed into this idea that paedophillia will eventually be morally re-appraised by society soon.

[Quirkafleeg]

>I worry that his rings are taking over his left hand.

He's borg...

And his magnus opus, according to another interview, will be basically the history of one street in Northampton (becuase Voice of Fire was far to expansive in being about one town). With ghosts. So that's 'Coronation Street on acid!' in lazy journo speak

[johnnystress]

His hair/beard combo is waaaay better than the Byrnesters

[Floyd-the-k]

it's possible that some of the defences of Lost Girls will do that, JimBob, but I don't think that's Moore's fault, nor do I think it'll have much of an impact on paedophilia's being morally re-appraised.
  I thought Moore made some good points about our contradictory culture, which seems to combine a relentless sexualising of young kids with a delight in outrage at actual paedophilia.  If I understand correctly, papers like News of the World and The Sun combine slavering over young celebrities with getting all outraged over paedophiles being allowed to live anywhere.
  Anyway, that's just what I think. I haven't studied the issue seriously, nor do I have any experience in interviewing paedophiles

[JimBob]

 just for clarrification, as I could have phrased that better, I do not think that paedophillia will become acceptable to mainstream society I'm just reporting an idea that has come up a few time in interviews of paedophiles.
 Hopefully the point I was trying to make  that you can be concerned aboout the impact of moores work without being rabidly unreasonable or seeing the world through News-of-the-Worldo-scope did come accross.

[Floyd-the-k]

your point did come across JimBob. I agree that you can be concerned about Moore's work without being a loon, News Of the WOrld ratbag or John 'blind to reason' Byrne.