Paul Verhaeghen on P

[Ya Sam]

'Long before I moved here, I was taken by these dashing and daring American 
writers and the luster and bluster of their prose -- people not afraid of 
putting the plot first, and the characters second (pawns, not 
personalities); I was especially blown away by Pynchon, who rages through 
the page like Hendrix through his Marshall amp (even more so when read 
sleep-drunk between 5:30 and 6:30 am, on the first train to Ghent, on your 
way to fulfill your military service). Those readings mingled with the very 
real surrealism of growing up in Belgium, a farcical little country that 
does not exist, only glued together by mayonnaise and a deep sense of the 
absurdity of life. In Belgium, everybody always expects the Spanish 
Inquisition, and all of us are deeply anarchic and deeply (though often 
recovering) catholic at the same time.'

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