Michael Moorcock: My Family Values - The writer talks about how his mother defended him to the hilt and how the best thing that happened to him was his father leaving when he was very young.
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Michael Moorcock: My Family Values | The Guardian (12/06/2015)
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Last edited by David Mosley; 06-12-2015, 06:15 AM.Tags: None
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I can see the grandkids attitude, having grown-up with the "Just Say No!" brand put on everything (with us supposed to read between the lines). It's an endemic scorch-the-earth policy for anyone who did what Mike did but without responsibility; anyone can understand how that doesn't work, but everyone loved the parents who were responsible about it.
Sadly, they hardly existed and we tended to love more the parents who were irresponsible in this day-and-age and self-made victims of people advocating true-responsibility; we played right into D.A.R.E. hands.
I mean, kids are smart but the world is much bigger than you and it's playing a game you can't win with this stuff. You can only refuse to play the game otherwise you err on the side of caution but you lose your freedom as a result of it.
Kids growing up with grandparents like Mike can really lose their bearings in this climate not because of any fault in their ethics but because the opposing team is cheating. They're inundated by an army of the dishonorable while the grandparents fight as the Eternal Champions against all this dross.
It all gets better, in my opinion, and faster if you just don't play the game (which, unfortunately, they can prey upon by making you feel "left out" or "not one of us").
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Got a few things wrong from mishearing I suspect. I don't have a 24 year old grandson - he's 14 and Max manages St Mary's in London. That's why I prefer email interviews! Oh, the kids shouting. 'Get off, you old hippy fart!' was at a Deep Fix set - at Nik Turner's Bohemian Love In. I loved my kids a lot!Pre-order or Buy my latest titles in Europe:
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Loved the piece. I've often wondered, while reading your work, 'what kind of childhood and upbringing produces a mind that can envision The Million Spheres?'. I'm still regularly amazed that you live in Texas! I suppose it's because I associate your wonderful books with Britain, a land I love and have visited several times. What, may I ask, brings a lauded English author to live in Texas? I'm relatively new to Moorcock's Miscellany so you may have answered these questions many times over.
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I usually tell people I was on the dodge.
But it's far more prosaic really. We had family there or in Mississippi and we liked Austin. We only planned to live there 3 to 5 years. Then I got sick...
Both the small town and Austin are changing too much but we haven't left because Linda's 94 year old mom has senile dementia and we need to be fairly close to her. We live in Paris about half the year.Pre-order or Buy my latest titles in Europe:
The Whispering Swarm: Book One of the Sanctuary of the White Friars - The Laughter of Carthage - Byzantium Endures - London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction
Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles - Kizuna: Fiction for Japan - Modem Times 2.0 - The Sunday Books - The Sundered Worlds
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The Laughter of Carthage - Byzantium Endures - London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction - The Sunday Books - Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles
Kizuna: Fiction for Japan - The Sundered Worlds - The Winds of Limbo - Modem Times 2.0 - Elric: Swords and Roses
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