We are, at last, leaving phase one of the ebook discussion, during which people could ritually invoke the ‘smell of paper’ as a call to cultural barricades. Some anxieties are tenacious: how will people know what a splendid person I am without a pelt of the right visible books on my walls, without the pretty qlippoth husks? A hopeful future: that our grandchildren will consider our hankering for erudition-décor a little needy
—
China Miéville, ‘The Future of the Novel’ at the Edinburgh World Writers Conference (via robertsharp)
erudition-décor is my new favorite word ~ eP
(via ebookporn)
God, you know, I wake up in the morning some days and find out that China Mieville is still China Mieville and that’s all I need, I know it’s going to be a good day.
(Source: Guardian)
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