That’s important. I mean, we are inevidably going to be living in somebody’s story. The nature of societies is to write stories for us to live in that will be beneficial to that society, even when they are not necessarily beneficial to us. We can’t live on the territory. You know, we are going to be living upon the map. Inevitably. We do not experience reality directly, we only experience a simulation of reality that we put together through the vibrations in our ears, the messages to our eyes, and the signals passing through our nerves. We compose all of these into an image of reality. We are constructing our reality, so inevitably our own lives are fiction. When we look back over our memories, we are editing them. We are changing bits of them: forgetting things that are inconvenient to us, embroidering bits we enjoyed.

Our societies are texts. They are fictions that we, it is insisted, inhabit. That’s not good enough. I think human beings have the power, if we so wish, to come up with our own stories, stories in which we have more enjoyable roles than the ones that have been laid down to us. Yeah, I was pleased with that line as well. I think it’s as close to a political statement as you are liable to find in Voice of the Fire. Yes, people should take their stories into their own hands. We can come up with alternative ways of thinking and living. We can come up with texts of our own that are more suited to human beings than these inhuman narratives such as war and economic recession that are imposed upon us from above. We should use our imagination a bit more.

sobre la novela nueva:

Jerusalem is nearly half-completed. I’ve been doing it nonstop for the past eighteen months. It’s the longest I’ve ever worked upon anything without a break. All through my comics career I was inevitably working on three or four things at once. When I did my first novel I was breaking off every chapter to do another couple of installments of whichever comics I was writing at the time. But with Jerusalem I’ve spent the last eighteen months doing nothing but this novel about the area that I grew up in. It’s got an awful lot of family and personal, as well as national, history worked into it. There is also a lot of outrageous fantasy as well. So, a lot of things that you shouldn’t technically have in a mainstream novel. There are angels and demons and God turns up in the prologue, and yet it’s gritty, almost painful social realism an awful lot of the novel. It’s a strange beast. And I was just getting to the point where I was starting to feel that the narrative was starting to bog down, just purely because I’d been working on it nonstop.

http://www.readysteadybook.com/Article.aspx?page=alanmoore

Estoy esperando con impaciencia para comprar me la edicion Absolute de Watchmen que va a publicar Planeta en breve.

José Yofre (a.k.a. OrionKnight)

Y desde luego la portada no es muy allá, deberían habérmela encargado a mí :p