{"id":205,"date":"2007-12-19T21:42:08","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T02:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=205"},"modified":"2012-02-25T20:37:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T01:37:14","slug":"will-self-bss-160","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/will-self-bss-160\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Self (BSS #160)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Self is the author of <i>Psychogeography<\/i> and <i>The Book of Dave<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/willself.jpg' alt='willself.jpg' align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3558\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-205-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo160.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo160.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo160.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo160.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=205-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo160.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo160.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 42:33 &#8212; 39.0MB)<\/p>\n<p><b>Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> Frightened by walking and crosswalk signals.<\/p>\n<p><b>Author:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.will-self.com\/\">Will Self<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Subjects Discussed:<\/b> The overlapping relationship between <i>The Book of Dave<\/i> and <i>Psychogeography<\/i>, topographical narrative, Nicholson Baker, Nabokov&#8217;s rule about topographical necessity and novels, John Updike&#8217;s <i>Brazil<\/i>, the Post-It notes in Self&#8217;s writing room, early plotting efforts with 3&#215;5 cards, short-term memory, Self&#8217;s use of arcane words, <i>My Idea of Fun<\/i>, working with a large vocabulary, Peter Carey&#8217;s &#8220;The Cartographers,&#8221; why Self uses &#8220;minatory,&#8221; lexical blending, &#8220;kidults,&#8221; writing 1,000 words a day, Anthony Burgess, the writers who showed Self the way, David Markson, NADSAT vs. Mockney, Russell Hoban&#8217;s <i>Ridley Walker<\/i>, George Michael&#8217;s &#8220;I Want Your Sex,&#8221; bodily functions and literature, J.G. Ballard, starting from corporeal qualities for characters, Jonathan Swift, Oliver Rackham as armchair historian, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/printedition\/books\/la-bk-higgins4nov04,1,2984019.story?coll=la-headlines-bookreview\">Karrie Higgins&#8217;s review<\/a>, austere terms for psychogeography, why Self went to the obvious tourist spots, the Situationists&#8217;s failure to account for family, on having two passports and national identity, being a citizen of London and trying to get out of the city, the problems with the travel industry, the cigarette as a narrative unit, airline travel, Marx and Guy Debord, Self&#8217;s definition of the d\u00c3\u00a9rive, walking 25-30 miles a day, Self&#8217;s theories about Our Young, Roving Correspondent&#8217;s anxieties over long walks and drab details, how long walks become variegated, expanding one&#8217;s curiosity, Self&#8217;s difficulty in talking with people, and learning more about people through a system.<\/p>\n<p><b>EXCERPT FROM SHOW:<\/B><\/p>\n<p><b>Self:<\/b> When I wrote <i>My Idea of Fun<\/i> years ago, I was a stripling.  I had a character &#8212; The Fat Controller &#8212; who was a kind of rampant sesquipedalian who was obsessed with neologisms and coinages and recondite terms.  And maybe that was an expression of that part of myself.  I mean, some of my stuff&#8217;s actually pretty straightforward.  It just depends on what the <i>mot juste<\/i> is.  I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m a kind of wanton in that way, though many people charge me with it.  I don&#8217;t collect words in any kind of obsessive way.  I mean, I work with a good old-fashioned analog <i>Oxford English Dictionary<\/i> and if I look up a word, as a writer frequently must, and I see an interesting word next to it, I&#8217;ll note it down.  But I never go truffling for words.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3559\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-205-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo160.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo160.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo160.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo160.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=205-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo160.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo160.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 42:33 &#8212; 39.0MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Self is the author of Psychogeography and The Book of Dave. 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