There's a thing I said about Jeff Lint in an unpublished story I wrote about him: 'Lint knew that his use of originality as the basic building unit of a book would result in the perception of at least two different versions of the book among readers - the bifurcation would begin with readers who accepted and included diversity, and those who deemed difference an exception which need not be factored in. The first would perceive richness, the second emptiness, and perceptual graduation in between and beyond would aggregate from there. Thus Lint brought not peace, nor a sword, but a dicer. Or, more accurately, he revealed the varied prejudices of perception that already existed.' So it's not for everyone. And, unfortunately, most people really and genuinely don't want anything new or original. Which is fine. I just wish they wouldn't claim that they do.
Steve Aylett |
