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I Never Thought Of Myself As An Outsider. Because Outside Of What? You Would Have To Give Advantage To This Space Where You're Not, To Think Of It As Sovereign Because You're Not There. I Was Always In The Center Of Where I Needed To Be.

Europe Has Never Been A Monolithic Space, It Contains A Lot Of People, A Lot Of Languages And Infinite Supplies Of History. I Didn't Need To Do Anything To Showcase Diversity. It Is A Condition Of Life And Art In Europe, Contained In Every Random Sample.

What I Was Interested In Is The Lens Organizing My Sovereign Space. I Avoid The Term Outsider And Also Exile For The Same Reason. Outsider Implies A Kind Of Nobility.

It Is So Much Easier To Deal With The Dead Than With The Living. The Dead Are Out Of The Way, Merely Characters From Stories About The Past, Never Again Unreadable, No Misunderstandings Possible, The Pain Coming From Them Stable And Manageable. Nor Do You Have To Explain Yourself To Them, To Justify The Fact Of Your Life.

People Will Always Tell Stories. The Publishing Industry Might Vanish, But Not Stories.