Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.
Will SelfThe great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.
Will SelfIn truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality.
Will SelfWhatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.
Will Self