Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was ominous becomes ordinary; what was bizarre, quotidian. Unless you simply keep upping the ante, piling on the bullshit, the only way to revive things is to switch perspectives as quickly as you can.
M. John HarrisonIdentity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.
M. John HarrisonBudapest is a prime site for dreams: the Eastโs exuberant vision of the West, the Westโs uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna โ the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.
M. John HarrisonWritings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
M. John Harrison