February 19, 2012
millionsmillions: It’s just so hard to get sick of seeing Martin Amis brooding next to arcade games. Patrick McGrath: The best moral thought? Martin Amis: The best moral thought. The representation of humanity at the crest of itself. Something like that. In fact, I’ve never understood why the idea of literature as religion was demolished so quickly. It seems to me that would be a tenable way of looking at it. It’s a constant, making something out of the present and the past at the same time. Certainly an elitist thing, there’s no question about that. But it’s an elite open to everyone. PM: Do you see it decaying alongside everything else? MA: Literature? No. I mean, they say the novel is dead. Well, try and stop people writing novels. Or poems. There’s no stopping people. I suppose it’s conceivable that no one will know how to spell in fifty years’ time, but not while the books are still there. You don’t need a structure. The autodidact is omnipresent in fiction. —BOMB 18, 1987 Guess I’m a Martin Amis and arcade games blogger now.

millionsmillions:

It’s just so hard to get sick of seeing Martin Amis brooding next to arcade games.

Patrick McGrath: The best moral thought?

Martin Amis: The best moral thought. The representation of humanity at the crest of itself. Something like that. In fact, I’ve never understood why the idea of literature as religion was demolished so quickly. It seems to me that would be a tenable way of looking at it. It’s a constant, making something out of the present and the past at the same time. Certainly an elitist thing, there’s no question about that. But it’s an elite open to everyone.

PM: Do you see it decaying alongside everything else?

MA: Literature? No. I mean, they say the novel is dead. Well, try and stop people writing novels. Or poems. There’s no stopping people. I suppose it’s conceivable that no one will know how to spell in fifty years’ time, but not while the books are still there. You don’t need a structure. The autodidact is omnipresent in fiction.

—BOMB 18, 1987

Guess I’m a Martin Amis and arcade games blogger now.

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