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...weren't for the genre protecting you - like a viral coating, but the DNA inside is very potent. [The Fly] was a story that if you did it straight, would never get made. Because it's basically: two eccentric but beautiful people meet each other, fall in love, one of them gets a hideous wasting disease, the other watches and eventually helps him commit suicide - end of story. It's like, hey, high concept? No. But given the telepods and the monstrosity it suddenly becomes acceptable...
Well, that's a very interesting point, I mean, the expectations are different. But on the other hand, there is the Mozartian opera which people love - and rightly so - but for its delightfulness. That isn't threatening really, even in the Madame Butterfly...
...elaborate about your forthcoming novel? Adrian Comeau Halifax, Canada I've been writing that book for close to two years and it's going to be the biggest book I've ever written. All my books are weird love stories. I love weird love stories. And this book is a very long, weird love story...
...Meanwhile, the future of Hirst's market is also affected by the so far inconclusive fate of his most highly publicized project, a diamond-encrusted skull he unveiled last year called For the Love of God. As a trope for human folly and cupidity, a glittering death's head is as tired as it gets. Hirst's twist, such as it was, was to have the thing manufactured at a stratospheric level of crass luxury - a platinum skull layered with 8,601 diamonds - then to offer the poisoned apple to the world's billionaires for $100 million. At that price...
...Hirst also seems to have a second father figure - the painter Francis Bacon, who died in 1992. Hirst says Bacon's bleak, tumultuous work made an impression on him early: "It was like album-cover art. It was gory, high impact. When you're young you love that kind of stuff. But then I started painting, and everything I was painting was kind of shit Bacons, really bad copies. So I gave...