[UA] Myths Over Miami

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

At 05:20 PM 11/24/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>The idea in our culture that crazy art is created by crazy people who can't
>help themselves is a rank, evil lie. With only a very few prominent
>exceptions, people who are genuinely sick don't have the wherewithal to
>express themselves.

Who was the writer who said "If I couldn't write, I'd be running down the
street throwing hand grenades in people's faces"?  

Honestly, it wouldn't take too much persuasion to convince me that horror
writers in particular have a "whistling past the graveyard" element to
their work.  I'll write about stuff I don't want to read about.  I put my
character through all kinds of nasty shit because it makes me feel (at some
primative level) that doing so makes it less likely to happen to me.  "No
no, Fate!  You don't have to torment me!  Look, I respect your power!  I
told this story about how horrible your wrath can me!  Look at now Neal
suffers!  Look at how Renata suffers!"  

-G.
Three decades, seven presidents, eight Olympic games, 28 volcanic
eruptions, 87 space missions, 203 overthrown governments, 1,712 Oscar
nominations, 420,000 new miles of highway, 51 million acres of cleared
rainforest...

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