De Amerikaanse schrijver, essayist en criticus Steven Michael Erickson werd geboren op 20 april 1950 in Los Angeles. Zie ook alle tags voor Steven Erickson op dit blog.
Uit: The Sea Came in at Midnight
„So Louise became something more profound than tormented: she became haunted. Having traficked in the sort of memories people had spent thousands of years trying to forget, and the sort of dreams they had spent thousands of years trying to awake from,she had wandered at will and without accountability on the apocalyptic landscape of the imagination. Now a stain spread from the darkest center of the unaccountable imagination, becoming only more confounding and unbearable with every moment, the question of when and where the imagination becomes accountable by and to whom, beginning with the one who imagines a nightmare simply for the thrill of its imagining, moving to the one who renders it an artifact to be experienced in common by others, eventually to the collective audiencethat chooses to watch, for the thrill of watching, a girl actually being murdered in a movie, to the individual man or woman who, before suppressing it in horror, entertains a fleeting curiosity, dallying with the temptation to look, then finally conforming to whatever sick social chic compels everyone at a cocktail party to watch, like they would watch the home movie of a summer vacation or a child getting his first bike. At what point, if any, in the exchange betweenthe one whpo bears the fruitof the imagination and the one who devours it, does it all stop short of being beyond the pale, at what point is everyone complicit, at what point can one consider himself unaccountable for what the imagination has wrought, right up until the moment that he is damned by it?“
Steve Erickson (Los Angeles, 20 april 1950)
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