John Lanchester
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 27 Jun
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But because of the ubiquity of these things, there's now a possible level of intrusion and sort of breaching the circle around people's privacy that has never existed before.
And the example I had in mind was that you could have a nickname for someone, you could have a nickname for your partner that you'd never spoken in front of another person.
that no other human being on earth had ever heard.
And now the state could know that.
I think that's really odd that our private self, the sphere around our private self, is now more permeable than it used to be.
And clearly, on some level, those had been percolating away somewhere.
But as I said, there's a funny thing about this long incubation that I didn't know was happening, and the novel actually coming quite quickly in one go.
Yeah, I like that way of putting it.
Terry Pratchett used to say there's this big warehouse called Ideas R Us.
I mean, the planning for me is the fun part because there are, I think because the stakes feel lower.
You know, once you've actually started writing, something goes wrong.
You're chucking away, I was going to say months if you're unlucky, if you're really unlucky, years of work.
And also I get very...
I get mood swings when I'm in the middle of a book and they're more down than up.
They're more, oh God, this isn't working.
I hate it.
Why am I not writing that other book?
There's a much better idea.
And that always happens when you've gone too far to back out.
So I try and plan carefully to avoid that, that feeling of it.
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