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INTERVIEWER
I’ve heard it remarked that your work is “too sophisticated” for American readers, in that it offers no scenes of violence—and “too subtle,” in that its message is somewhat veiled. What do you say?
GREEN
Unlike the wilds of Texas, there is very little violence over here. A bit of child killing, of course, but no straight shootin’. After fifty, one ceases to digest; as someone once said: “I just ferment my food now.” Most of us walk crabwise to meals and everything else. The oblique approach in middle age is the safest thing. The unusual at this period is to get anywhere at all—goddamn!
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| Christopher Isherwood, Henry Miller, Thomas Wolfe, Albert Camus, Lewis Carroll, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Henry Fielding, Ronald Firbank, Henry James, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Laurence Sterne, Virginia Woolf |
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