I love the Culture thing, Man. And your plots may be Heath Robinson, but your transexualism and politics of surplus rock. When we read books, we mustn't separate the author from what he or she writes. Remember Iago is Shakespeare 's thought crime. Use of Weapon's was Ian Banks thought crime. If the police had read Use of Weapons before the publishers then Banks would have been sectioned. A forensic linguist would have had him sent him to Broadmoor . Aha! There you have it. Shakespeare as Iago. The office of devil's advocate. Horror fiction writers imagine terrible things in close detail for the entertainment of their readership, who lap it up. What does that tell you about the people who write and read horror fiction? Look at misery literature. Who reads and writes that? What kind of a species are we? Where's the legislation against the imagination? This is chaos! The imagination is like the sea. Legislators are King Ca...
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