You get a sense of its being dreamlike and sensual. As I said, I have received angry letters. The country is veering more and more towards repression. As a moral and an imagining being I cannot help but feel threatened. One way of dealing with orthodoxy and bad faith is black humor.
Myth takes many forms.
For example, the idea that the Free Market can regulate itself is a myth. Or that economic growth is good and necessary. In The Jade Cabinet, Radolph Tubbs exemplifies such myths. I was working on an anthology with a Canadian publisher, called Shoes and Shit. The idea was that great fiction could be about any subject.