My conversation with Peter Molyneux: part 1

[Roger Travis]

Let's try this again. . . steep learning curve here. . .

Someday, this will all happen in VGHVI's virtual world. Maybe it's time to start thinking about what to name that Outopia. . . .

Part of 1 of the conversation.

[Matthew Teutsch]

Interesting. I particularly like the idea of literature, or any art form, corrupting the creative process. With music, I have always heard, and through experience learned, that in order to be truly creative, you need to flush out all other influences that would directly relate to the art being created.

I'm also interested in the professor in England. Did you ever get a name? The topic of African storytellers would really work with my interest in African American oral traditions.

[David Colon]

I though this part of the interview was utterly fascinating. One of the main reasons centers around Peter Molyneux's dyslexia. From the conversation, I had the sense that he was essentially "aliterate" (that is not meant in a derogatory way) and that printed text or the written word didn't have the impact on him that it might on others. Does that, in a sense, put him in a similar category to the Homeric bards? I know there are very big differences one could point out, but their functional aliteracy raises some interesting comparisons in my mind.