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“I chose him because he strikes me as a searcher, very much like Janet Frame. It always seems to come from a desperate need to survive, to make sense of reality. In my education I learned a lot of maths and physics, and there is something about his mode of exploring that is like an equation or a riddle. It’s a much more intellectual take on storytelling, even if he doesn’t know what he wants to say in advance.” Read more...
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