on visual art (TV, painting, cinema). mise_en_abyme_. refraction, seeing through the reflective surface and engaging with the reader. mentions Las Meninas (and by mentions I mean he talks about it for quite a while). also mentions his earliest published work of fiction (The Planet Trillaphon from 1984, which I haven't yet read). mirrors in Broom, GCH, IJ, Oblivion. interesting but nothing really quotable. a bit about how TPK was originally going to be called Sir John Feelgood, with Drinion as its main character (about video pornography)