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David Gilmour's Open Book, Part Two - Page 3
© Paula E. Kirman
Page 3
Sep 8, 2000
I've got to tell you, I can't stand those self-aggrandizing, imitation Henry Miller novels about all the booze I drank, and all the girls I fucked, and all the dope I took. I find those incredibly tedious and incredibly tiresome. But How Boys See Girls sold real well. I was even in a restaurant last night and a waitress came over to me and said "I read that book; that was a dirty book but I really, really, really liked it." It's going to sound pretentious but I am going to say that there is a truth that goes beyond your experience and if you actually cut your own experience down not just what happened to you and Eddy on the way home from school, but what is really fundamentally, absolutely true about things that have happened to you in your life and things you felt then you really are writing about everyone. You just have to be prepared to go that far down or you are just writing a "miracle of me" piece of bullshit and nobody should read it. Kirman: It's interesting that you mention that the waitress said it's a dirty book because a few years ago a girlfriend of mine asked me to loan her a book that was very erotic but that also did not go too far and I loaned her How Boys See Girls and she just loved it. Gilmour: [laughs] It's not because it's War and Peace or because it's the Great Gatsby; it's pleasantly written but it really is true. The one reason I always felt OK about that book - and you know when that book came out it was panned right across the country. It was like being in a nightmare for six weeks and I thought "I don't understand what's going on here." Because to me it seemed like a love story, to tell you the truth no hotter or no colder than anybody else's. It's not like they were tying each other up and whipping each other with chains. They were just getting on with getting it on a lot which is what you tend to do at the beginning of a relationship [laughs again]. What did you say, your friend called you up and asked you for a dirty book? Kirman: She didn't ask for a "dirty book;" she asked for something erotic and I loaned her that one. Gilmour: And she found it sufficiently erotic?
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