Notes on Style
General Notes
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Multiple works coexisting within in one work. Sudden ruptures in otherwise omniscient narrative voice, unnerving descents into the second person. Syncopated syntax, bent grammar, specific declarations about the limits and unlimits of words.
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Characters rendered as whole persons but also symbolic selves, sides of the same personal whole. Moving towards wholeness from the wounds of childhood: literally recovering ourselves.
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Generic locations with metaphoric names: Babylon, Zion, The Promised Land (Selah). Post-psychoanalysis this is how religion is redeemed.
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Fragments in Homage: text inset with fragments from past writers, where they have perfected the words. Common to music and poetry, strangely foreign to prose.
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Hard Agnosticism: treating the myriad possibilities of the spirit world seriously, declaring complete un-knowledge of any truth proposed.
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Masculine pronouns used in certain declamatory speech, not to exclude but to limit and preserve. Our Holy may not be Your Holy.
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Works form part of the New Scripture movement: disconnecting those narratives from Total Depravity, restoring the Great Story that has driven the success of the West.
NOTES ON STYLE
The Low Down
So the Most Beautiful Woman says to me the other day:
"... your books are kinda like the bible, only easier to understand".
Pretty much nailing what I have taken so many thousands of words to say.
I also told her of this extravagant recurring dream I would have whilst writing my books. That they might help people to reunite the emotional and the sensual parts of their reality, that they might even make readers want to weep and come at the same time.
Sure, she says.
They do that.
Only not in that order ;-)
And there you have it.
Now that the Majesty of Judas is complete it doesn't really matter where you start with my work. Any of the books will quickly bring you to the same place. If you want to go there, of course, if you prefer the two dimensional flatland of emotion that comprises the modern world I respect your choice. Ahem :-)