The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.
Hal DuncanWords command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.
Hal DuncanPrejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.
Hal DuncanMost of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.
Hal Duncan