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...Just a personal fantasy, I guess. I sometimes find myself thinking about my own family and the connections of their lives to mine now. I cared a lot about my grandmother and loved listening to stories about her childhood, when she was alive. She had this amazing ability to make you feel like you were there. Listening to her I had a better sense of the time period than I did looking at pictures or even reading about it. I wanted to try to get a little bit of that in there. And also to contrast the differences between what...
...this sort of thing on the reading public in the form of a comic strip. I've never been quite comfortable with autobiography because then I'd be tied to what was actually going on in my own life, and not have the freedom of a fictional story. I guess the irony of it is that in trying to do that [my father] up and dies and I hardly ever got to talk to him. Kind of ridiculous...
...more than half way through it when I finally did hear from him, and I guess the character of the dad was so developed by then. It had some effect on how I viewed the story but I don't know if it had much effect on the plot, for lack of a better word, since I don't know if there is necessarily a plot. It wasn't like he said anything where I thought, "Oh great! I can use that...
...really. I guess that occurred to me as I was starting that last chapter. The story can be misinterpreted as being very pessimistic. I don't want it to seem pessimistic at all. I just try to be realistic. Since the whole story is about inactivity or inaction, it's up to him what he's going to do about...
...know. It's a problem I have, I guess. I collect a bunch of junk from the turn of the century - sheet music and records and musical instruments. Essentially, I think I just prefer the craftsmanship and care and humility of design and artifacts from the earlier era. And I don't know if that's just the result of me having the benefit of hindsight and sort of editing things out, or if it really is there. But it seems [there is] this arrogant sexuality to the modern world that I find very annoying, and, I guess, threatening...