23rd
P: OK. Jerusalem. One of the questions I wanted to ask you about Jerusalem, is there going to be one of these intractable, impenetrable first chapters like with Voice of the Fire?
AM: Now, I did deliberately put the Hob’s Hog chapter in Voice of the Fire. I have been asked since why I did that. The only thing I could think of was, to keep out scum.
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The second section [of Jerusalem] reads like, well, I’ve described it as reading like a savage hallucinating Enid Blyton. It’s because there’s a gang of ghost children that are the main characters, and even though there are very adult things happening all around them, there’s something about having a group of children that makes it into an Enid Blyton story, even though the background of the story and everything that’s happening is completely mental.