“perhaps, all these years, historians had been unwilling to recognize history as a spiral because a spiral was so difficult to describe. was war, then, the big solution after all? war the great aphrodisiac, the great source of world adrenalin, the solvent of ennui, angst, melancholia, accidia, spleen? war itself a massive sexual act. -war, finally, the controller, the trimmer & excisor; the justifier of fertility?" --the Wanting Seed/Burgess” LifeWarSexHuman NatureAndrophillia Author:Tony Burgess
“As a kid, I couldn't articulate it but I sought out things that could. At first it was horror films - extreme panic and terror, grotesque and maniacal. These films calmed me and made me feel more connected in my experiences.” FeelsFirstsMadeKidsFilmHorrorTerrorExtremesConnectedPanicGrotesqueHorror Film Author:Tony Burgess
“I am a feral person. I have no bank account. I am unemployable. I own nothing. I lose my shoes sometimes when I go out. It sounds like I'm making a case for my own exceptionalism, which I suppose I am, but I wish it wasn't true.” PersonsSometimesWishSoundLosesMy OwnCasesAccountsShoesBank AccountsExceptionalism Author:Tony Burgess
“My fear, as a writer, is that I am a curiosity. That I can only bring you this peculiar condition from far away, from outside, and if you look at it then it will mean nothing. So, I have to pretend it's more than that. Horror writing lets me do that.” IfsWritingLooksMeanI CanConditionsHorrorLet MeCuriosityPeculiarFar Away Author:Tony Burgess
“I am interested in giving the reader true vertigo. I look to deteriorating consciousness as our inevitable condition and I am trying to make it work the same way I did with my juvenile mind - that is, to imagine how we are suffering. To record it being actual and then virtual.” WayGivingTryingMindLooksSufferingConsciousnessRecordsImagineConditionsReaderInevitableJuvenileDeterioratingVertigo Author:Tony Burgess
“I believe the book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life. But it has threatened your life. Not by saying something it believes is true, but by attacking it.” ShouldBelieveBookI BelieveProtectThreatenedAttackingProtect Yourself Author:Tony Burgess
“A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different. Can threaten what you think is. You should be holding onto that tree or rock screaming. Or laughing. Not at absurdity, either: absurdism is just a bourgeois and reactionary nostalgia for good, stable meaning.” ThinkingWayShouldMadeDifferentFallImaginationNovelLaughingTreeRocksHorrorNostalgiaStableAbsurdityFalling ApartHolding OnBourgeoisReactionaries Author:Tony Burgess
“I think horror should have occult elements, not as its subject but as its ambition. It is a machine that destroys illusion. I, of course, never achieve this, but I always act as if I can.” IfsThinkingShouldI CanCoursesAchieveSubjectsHorrorElementsAmbitionIllusionShould HaveMachinesOccult Author:Tony Burgess
“The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me.” WritingBookHappenings Author:Tony Burgess
