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5: What's your typical writing process? Your essays often seem carefully crafted, and I wonder whether that happens through rewriting and editing, or if they spring from your fingers in something close to their final state.
9: Alan Moore's Jerusalem -- discuss.
11: You've spoken in the past, off-handedly, about being uninterested, or in some way psychologically unable, to write fiction, despite your facility with essay-writing. I wonder if you'd care to elaborate on that...?
3: If I asked Andrew Rilstone the question: “What do you think about the way ChatGBT answered the question ‘If I asked Andrew Rilstone to answer the question “Why Do We Keep Remaking the Same Stories?” what do you think he would say?" what do you think he would say?