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| Photograph by David Ma. |
You’re proud of your status as a hipster. Do you regret the way it’s become a disparaging, pejorative term now?
Alan Moore: Has it? Yeah, that’s probably true. It used to be a fashion
statement, but it was information as a fashion statement which is
probably going to do you more good than the clothing you wear. I got an
incredible education starting from the point at which I was thrown out
of school. Now, I could probably hold my own intellectually with most
people who have had university or college educations. And indeed some of
them will have done courses on my books. So, despite the fact my
‘education’ ended at 16, I had hipsterism, which was wanting to be hip,
and that led me to read this incredibly diverse array of books on
science, mysticism, science fiction, literature, art… I would find out
about these movements that I had heard about, and it’s given me a pretty
comprehensive education. Now I am an autodidact, which is a great word…
I learned it myself.
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