I didn’t feel I had much choice about this, when to have slogged on doggedly with the novel would have been to spoil it with my obvious exhaustion, but in retrospect the couple of years I spent on Dodgem Logic gave me the time to seriously think through all the things that I wanted the third and final section to achieve. And, after the conclusion of that chapter, I found that I needed to produce eight issues of Dodgem Logic as a palate cleanser and a means to refresh my concentration. That said, there were certain sections of the book, such as the Lucia Joyce chapter, that demanded such a complete immersion it would have been near impossible to write much else while they were going on. The intricate structure of Jerusalem existed in my head and in my notes from the very first, and was so well-established there that having to take time away from the project really didn’t affect it. In the first few years of working on Jerusalem, it was probably the closest I’ve ever got to being able to work on just one project, but even though Jerusalem was the main thing taking up my time, I was still putting it aside every few weeks to work upon other commitments. Alan Moore: I’m not sure if I’ve ever had the chance to answer this question to even my own satisfaction.
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