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If There Are Bases On The Moon, That Would Be The End Of The Moon As We Know It.

. . . I Wrote A Letter To Thomas Pynchon Asking, Can I Have Your Permission To Try To Make An [adaptation] Of Your Book? And I Had No Idea That He Would Answer Me, Because He's Pretty Elusive. But He Did Send A Letter Back That Said, Yes, You Can Do That - As Long As The Only Instrument In The Opera Is A Banjo. I Thought, That's An Interesting Way Of Saying No.

Freedon Is A Scary Thing. Most People Don't Want It.

Besides All Those Whaling Details, Moby Dick Is About Someone Who's Looking For Something So Huge, Something They've Wanted All Their Life, Yet They Know When They Find It, It Will Kill Them.

I Have Written A Lot About Snakes. There's Something Pretty Primordial About It.