Since I've been hired to contribute to the storyline of 'Doom 4' I can say what was always true anyway. I'm working. You see, for a writer, lots of stuff that doesn't look like working is actually working. Looking out of the window, for example. Balancing a pencil on the edge of the desk in order to find its exact fulcrum. Playing 'Doom.

Why can’t our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other?

I've been playing 'Doom' for some years.

Some people feed you with love.

The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.

The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.