Conversation with Gordon Burn
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GB: Were you aware, at that point, of drugs being seen as something
that's going to extend people's lives?
DH: No not really. I think it goes much deeper. It was more of
an initial thing.
GB: You'd already been to the mortuary and done all those sort
of dead head and all those kinds of things - the morbid obsession
had already started - you were already morbidly obsessed with death.
Somebody obsessed with death is morbid - it's from the same root,
isn't it?
DH: Yeah well, we all die, so this kind of big happy, smiling,
minimal, colourful, confident facade that medicine and drug companies
put up is not flawless - your body lets you down but people want
to believe in some kind of immortality.
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