Will Harrison
Will Harrison
dream cities paris
Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.
perception states
Perception of a state is not the state.
perspective bullshit way
Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was ominous becomes ordinary; what was bizarre, quotidian. Unless you simply keep upping the ante, piling on the bullshit, the only way to revive things is to switch perspectives as quickly as you can.
girl heart insecure
At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls.
fun opportunity imagination
SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun. After that, for me, it's an opportunity to explore that kind of imaginative artifact from inside, and use a little camped-up contemporary science as a way of generating new metaphors around my typical obsessions.
reality mad doom
Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.
writing gambling unpredictable
Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
country mysterious one-love
Everyone loves a mysterious country.
growing-up reading thinking
I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes
reading writing odds
What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why I go on living, most of the time. But this not knowing is precisely what I want to preserve. As readers, the closest way we can engage with a literary work is to protect its indeterminacy; to return ourselves and it to a place that precludes complete recognition. Really, when I’m reading, all I want is to stand amazed in front of an unknown object at odds with the world.
world stories realizing
Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.
topics life-is englishmen
To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.
argument conspirators eternal
The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.
government presidential examination
A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.