Itโs a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book they are meant to be seen reading this year. It seems like those people arenโt really interested in books. If youโre really into books, you havoc all over the place picking up disparate stuff which you devour hungrily, and the โselectionโ process is more like a sixth sense hunger, a billion miles away from fashion.
Steve AylettWhatโs life in this nation? Collect emptiness in a household of cornflakes. Transient fuel gobbles attention, the television aches, the truth walks. Scheme worms welcome your corpse, trap clicks and youโre in heaven, bored rigid
Steve AylettScientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog's repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people's earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive
Steve Aylett