Orion Ussner kidderI spent a LOT of time reading Moore's comics as well as commentaries on his comics, and eventually I realized he's a very talented weirdo, and that's why I like him. He can say things like this, and mean it, and also understand it's sort of mad:
What strikes me about is that last sentence, "If you're doing it right," even though earlier, he said it can be unintentional. He's mixing up authorial intent with something more akin to the death of the author. I have no idea what he would say if I started poking holes in his construction.
He'd probably write me off as one of those people who locked into a small belief system, and that makes me a little sad, but also the conceptual system I use is really sharp, and his is mad. So.
Ooze 𓁟@OrionKidder What's mad about his?
@Ooze Oh, I mean things like his revival of the cult of Glycon, who he knows to have been a fraud at the time, and he's doing it anyway *because* Glycon was a fraud. There's a wink and a nod to that, one that he was very clear about when he started doing it. He knows it's "mad," and that's what he likes about it.
@Ooze He seems to be very excited by the sheer irrationality of it, and I can appreciate that, but rationality is what I stick to for all kinds of reasons, and I don't think that makes me a square.
I hope it's clear that I'm saying this in good fun. I've never met the man, but I've spent *decades* reading his words, and I really do love that his madness is in the world. I just don't subscribe to it.