JA: What about characterisation, what's your attitude to that?
SH: Well, you can just forget it, I'm not interested in traditional notions of literary depth, and characterisation bores me. The only character in my books is really the place, the setting, that is to say London. The "individuals" featured in the prose are just cardboard cut-outs, vehicles with which to move the plot along. The complexity in my stuff comes from its referentiality, what in modern literary studies is called intertextuality, although I prefer to describe what I do as plagiarism because this helps confuse the issue. My technique is actually closer to the Situationist notion of detournement and has nothing to do with simply passing off the work of others as my own. I don't treat any given text as self-enclosed but instead endlessly refer to things outside it. No one is likely to get all these references but if you spot whole lines and re-worked passages that I've appropriated from other people's writing, then you will probably be amused by the way their meaning is twisted and changed by the context in which I place them. If you miss this stuff, it doesn't matter, because the plot will just carry you along.
SEX, VIOLENCE & ANARCHO-SADISM: Stewart Home interviewed by Jussi Ahokas, first published in Toinen Vaihroeheo, Finland, Winter 1994
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Pyle updated the registers.
It was actually Monday, but he wrote a day
ahead. In case he missed a day.
He added They, or dem, to the list
of "Pamphlets, Chapbooks, Fliers, and Four-Page Sheets." That brought
the total to 239.
He added WORKINGMAN'S BLUES NO. 2 to "Books Published
on the Worldwide Web." WORKINGMAN'S BLUES NO. 2 was number 194, but he had
written six books that were held-in-abeyance (HIA). That is, not posted on the web
because he had security clearance issues at work. He worked for a defense contractor.
He added WORKINGMAN'S BLUES NO. 2 to "Large Pyle's Stack." That brought
the total to 362.
He changed the line in his CV from "361 books, 362
roaring in his veins like a camphor injection" to "362 books, 363 roaring
in his veins like a camphor injection."
And in the catalogue raisonné
of the books of his stack, he changed "WORK. Projected." to "WORK.
September 22 - ___________. In progress."