Will Self - "The South Bank Show" 2/5

Will Self on "The South Bank Show" originally broadcast July 5th 1998.

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[TCTglobal]

"What drove me to write is my fear that I couldn't..." --WOW. Definitelt one of the darker writers I've come accross. Very interesting character, great interview.

[1233452432]

How about intoxicating our minds with youtube, where the majority of videos are completely rotten.

[TheChap36]

Will Self's writing reminds me of a cross between J.G. Ballard and dare I say, Franz Kafka. I would say Nabokov as well, but Vladi was on another planet. Samuel Beckett was a bad motherfucker too. Murphy is my favorite by him. There's a perfect admixture of pretension and humility in it's syntax.

[Scrotetasticular]

@wormdrink414 NAH MATE FUCKIN MORE SYNTH AND PURRA FAT FUCKING DONK ON IT! DONK DONK DONK DONK DONK DONK DONK BRRRRRRRRRRAP! yeas pleas

[wormdrink414]

Enough with the fucking piano synth.

[26wordy]

Wow that place looks fucking amazing will. Bleak Orkney,

[GrunGrauWeiss]

@BelatedCommiseration i agree with most of what you're saying here but the bit about 'which is probably why he became involved in drugs'... people become 'involved with drugs' for many reasons, the main one being that drugs are surprisingly enjoyable. it would be just as accurate to say that drug use is the reason he developed a 'narcissistic personality'. (to a layman like me that sounds like he's got a flowery mind lol)

sorry to ramble so much, i'm trying to give up the fags.

[carsanookdotcom]

@TCTglobal Dark writer? Try Sam Beckett. End Game or Happy Hays - on youtube. Yeah!

[aquestionofkelly]

@TCTglobal There really is nothing like that fear. There comes a point when writing something new doesn't even help because the possibility of not being able to produce something AFTER that burns your mind. It's amazing.

So glad to discover this man.

[noblecamel]

@BelatedCommiseration I see your point. For me, he seems genuine. I just reckon its the only way he can express himself. Maybe he thinks like that and so its honest. And even though it sounds pretentious, when you think about it, its pretty succinct. Three words instead of 50.

[BelatedCommiseration]

'Full temporal simultinaity'?!! Its phrases like that that almost make you love to hate Will Self. He is so self conciously intellectual that it does smack of pretension. You get the sense of a narcissistic personality, which is probably why he became involved in drugs in the first place. Its is only redeemed by the fact that Will Self is genuinely a clever man and an amazing author. Perhaps one of the only true didactic writers left to us in the modern age, inheriting the mantle of Huxley.

[closetome]

thanku