WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.750 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.750 --> 00:00:03.090 align:middle line:84% We have a little time for me to answer questions, 00:00:03.090 --> 00:00:06.120 align:middle line:84% if anybody wants to ask questions. 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:08.310 align:middle line:84% You don't have to if you don't want to, it's OK. 00:00:08.310 --> 00:00:11.196 align:middle line:90% 00:00:11.196 --> 00:00:13.630 align:middle line:84% Is this part of the linked short? 00:00:13.630 --> 00:00:14.210 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:00:14.210 --> 00:00:15.700 align:middle line:90% Yes, actually the parents-- 00:00:15.700 --> 00:00:18.340 align:middle line:84% the anarchist parents-- have their own story. 00:00:18.340 --> 00:00:19.660 align:middle line:90% The wife has her own story. 00:00:19.660 --> 00:00:21.400 align:middle line:84% We meet them when they're young, and we 00:00:21.400 --> 00:00:22.910 align:middle line:90% haven't seen them since then. 00:00:22.910 --> 00:00:27.460 align:middle line:90% So now we see them as parents. 00:00:27.460 --> 00:00:30.760 align:middle line:84% A lot of the anarchists in the 20-- 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:33.490 align:middle line:84% I placed them as anarchists in the 20s, 00:00:33.490 --> 00:00:36.280 align:middle line:84% when it was really a dying movement. 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:38.560 align:middle line:84% And the ones who stayed with it, of course, got 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:41.560 align:middle line:84% upstaged by the communists and various sort 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:42.980 align:middle line:90% of socialist groups. 00:00:42.980 --> 00:00:46.305 align:middle line:84% So there were a few anarchists who stayed with it. 00:00:46.305 --> 00:00:48.430 align:middle line:84% I mean those were they beliefs, and they kept them. 00:00:48.430 --> 00:00:50.830 align:middle line:84% And a few of them were against the war, 00:00:50.830 --> 00:00:53.210 align:middle line:84% which is how I got the idea for this story. 00:00:53.210 --> 00:00:53.710 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:00:53.710 --> 00:00:57.190 align:middle line:90% 00:00:57.190 --> 00:00:58.450 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:00:58.450 --> 00:01:02.746 align:middle line:84% Since writing your book on time in fiction, 00:01:02.746 --> 00:01:05.990 align:middle line:84% do you think differently now when your back to composing 00:01:05.990 --> 00:01:08.250 align:middle line:84% your stories about how you want time to work, 00:01:08.250 --> 00:01:11.340 align:middle line:84% or does that just play out in that way? 00:01:11.340 --> 00:01:14.028 align:middle line:84% Well, I wrote the book partly because they 00:01:14.028 --> 00:01:16.320 align:middle line:84% asked me to be in the series and I could pick my topic. 00:01:16.320 --> 00:01:18.750 align:middle line:84% But I picked time, because I-- for a while 00:01:18.750 --> 00:01:20.880 align:middle line:84% I had been doing stories that covered 00:01:20.880 --> 00:01:22.740 align:middle line:90% very long spans of time. 00:01:22.740 --> 00:01:26.663 align:middle line:84% And this one, we're mostly with this couple at this stage, 00:01:26.663 --> 00:01:28.830 align:middle line:84% but there's another sort of third of the story where 00:01:28.830 --> 00:01:33.750 align:middle line:84% we swoop forward and trace them to later middle age, 00:01:33.750 --> 00:01:35.460 align:middle line:90% or middle middle age. 00:01:35.460 --> 00:01:36.960 align:middle line:90% But I had always done that. 00:01:36.960 --> 00:01:38.970 align:middle line:84% Or I had recently done that, and I 00:01:38.970 --> 00:01:41.140 align:middle line:84% knew it was an eccentric thing to do. 00:01:41.140 --> 00:01:42.960 align:middle line:84% So that made-- so it's the reverse, that 00:01:42.960 --> 00:01:44.627 align:middle line:84% made me want to write the book and think 00:01:44.627 --> 00:01:48.390 align:middle line:84% about different things to do with time. 00:01:48.390 --> 00:01:50.550 align:middle line:84% Because I was always told summary 00:01:50.550 --> 00:01:56.070 align:middle line:84% was a weak form in fiction, and I sort of love it. 00:01:56.070 --> 00:01:59.200 align:middle line:84% So I was really drawn to doing these long, long stories. 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:02.010 align:middle line:84% Also I sort of have a belief that it 00:02:02.010 --> 00:02:03.640 align:middle line:84% takes a long time for things to happen. 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:06.570 align:middle line:84% You know, that the kinds of results I'm interested in 00:02:06.570 --> 00:02:07.980 align:middle line:90% don't happen in a scene. 00:02:07.980 --> 00:02:10.350 align:middle line:84% So I wanted to push the form to do that. 00:02:10.350 --> 00:02:13.540 align:middle line:90% 00:02:13.540 --> 00:02:16.080 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:19.240 align:middle line:84% Have you ever [INAUDIBLE] he's a writer [INAUDIBLE]?? 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:21.580 align:middle line:84% No, I know his name, but I don't know his work. 00:02:21.580 --> 00:02:25.300 align:middle line:84% I read some of his short stories last semester 00:02:25.300 --> 00:02:28.172 align:middle line:84% and they also have that summary style, all the way 00:02:28.172 --> 00:02:29.880 align:middle line:84% through, told by a first person narrator. 00:02:29.880 --> 00:02:30.380 align:middle line:90% Oh. 00:02:30.380 --> 00:02:34.120 align:middle line:84% And it was a very, very odd story. 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:40.090 align:middle line:84% [INAUDIBLE] stories, what was the [INAUDIBLE] 00:02:40.090 --> 00:02:41.590 align:middle line:84% Oh, I'm going to look for his stuff. 00:02:41.590 --> 00:02:44.200 align:middle line:90% Thank you, that's great. 00:02:44.200 --> 00:02:44.770 align:middle line:90% I'll stop. 00:02:44.770 --> 00:02:46.330 align:middle line:90% That's great, thank you all. 00:02:46.330 --> 00:02:46.960 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:50.327 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:02:50.327 --> 00:02:52.260 align:middle line:90% 00:02:52.260 --> 00:02:54.960 align:middle line:84% I just wanted to mention that there are books over there. 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:56.020 align:middle line:90% And will you sign? 00:02:56.020 --> 00:02:56.520 align:middle line:90% Sure. 00:02:56.520 --> 00:03:00.120 align:middle line:84% OK, so if you want to get a book, come on over here 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:02.660 align:middle line:90% and you can have Joan sign. 00:03:02.660 --> 00:03:03.660 align:middle line:90% Thanks again for coming. 00:03:03.660 --> 00:03:07.010 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:03:07.010 --> 00:03:11.191 align:middle line:90%