My Work So Far...
OK so the Stone Dance is even longer than War and Peace, but Tolstoy only took five years - I've taken maybe twelve... The funny thing is that it is only recently that I have become aware what it is that I have actually been writing: a kind of mythological summing up of my time on Earth (so far).
I say "mythological" for two reasons. The first is that, though the Stone Dance is profoundly autobiographical, it is so in a way that eluded even my awareness for years and that, though it is about me, it also about everybody - and that seems to me to be what mythology is all about.
The second reason I claim it is 'mythological' is that, while all the time my conscious mind was 'constructing' the world and story of the Stone Dance, it was my subconscious that was really calling the shots. There are deep undercurrents to the Stone Dance that even I have barely plumbed. I say this with all humility, for I have come to believe in Carl Jung's claims about our 'collective unconscious'. It was into this deepest of all seas that my subconscious sank - and this sea is the same that lies at the bottom of each one of us. Beyond whatever clever conceits my creation might possess, it is to this connection to the sea in all of us that the Stone Dance owes any power it may have. If I have 'channeled' it well enough, then it could be that it is a rainbow, both feet rooted in the depths, arching its colours through my mind and that of my readers...