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China Miéville in conversation with The White Review

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Is Recognition More Exciting Than Recognition?

Is it harsh to criticise something for going for one or the other? I think my position is that both of those drawers and those centres of gravity allow you to do certain things. And i also don't want to dissemble about the fact that for me, est agement is more exciting than recognition. At its worst, recognition can be a whole kind of a gemre of a kind of degraded, sort of extruded literary fiction product. The calm, chapter by chapter decoding of a never very mysterious metaphor clarifies what life is a bit like on er, e.

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