In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems uns… - Alan Moore

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In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.

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Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is a British writer, most famous for his influential work in comic-books and graphic novels.

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Pen Names: Kurt Vile

Native Name: Alan Oswald Moore

Alternative Names: Curt Vile • Jill de Ray • Translucia Baboon • The Original Writer

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Tis Dante I prefer. In his Inferno he suggests the one true path from Hell lies at its very heart...
...and that in order to escape, we must instead go further IN.

تنها آزادی که در اختیار مردم من است، آزادی برای گرسنگی کشیدن است، آزادی برای مردن، آزادی برای زندگی در دنیایی آشوب زده

“We don’t have a tradition of masked heroes really anywhere else in the world apart from America,” Moore said in an interview with RT’s Sophie Shevardnadze. “I mean, Guy Fawkes, who the ‘V for Vendetta’ mask is based upon – that wasn’t a mask, that was his face,” he said. Ditto for Robin Hood.

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