TALES OF AN ORANGEPEELER an archive of pleasures, wounds, sublimations & other curiosities :: profile 06.24.03, tuesday morning "Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated." - from Don DeLillo's novel Mao II, quoted in a Black Book article on piracy in the age of empire by Lawrence Chua. |