"Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models."
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Will Self, born on September 26, 1961, is a distinguished British novelist, journalist, and cultural commentator known for his sharp wit and incisive social commentary. His literary career, characterized by a unique blend of surrealism and psychological depth, has produced notable works such as "Umbrella" and "Book of Dave." Self's narrative style often reflects his fascination with modernity, urban life, and the complexities of the human psyche. With a voice that challenges conventions, he has solidified his place as a vital figure in contemporary literature.
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"The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past."
Will Self"The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers."
Will Self"If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding."
Will Self