Alan Moore was sexually assaulted at an elite English school when he was 11 years old. He hardly ever talks about it, but he did so in a 2013 interview. No wonder he fucking hated the Harry Potter books from the jump https://slovobooks.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/last-alan-moore-interview/

Has a book about Moore ever crossed your mind?

i wonder that a person of his principles ever became as successful as he is

I had a mildly similar argument (in microcosm) with my son's ordinarily intelligent girlfriend, who recoiled from Tropic Thunder in horror when RDJ appear in his blackface. With not a MOMENT'S thought about the context of the comedy. Took me a long time to bring her around. Frustrating.

That is such a thrillingly intelligent & thorough interview... And an astute response to what has become a tiresome, ignorant, reflexively offended mindset of many millennials and GenZs. Ersatz enlightenment at its most puerile. It is why "woke" was so easily co-opted and mocked.

Whenever someone gets grossed out about overly-violent or sexual media, I find it understandable, but I see it through a lense with a similar experience baked into my life. Those experiences don't leave you. When I pick up a pen, I'm processing, whether I'm aware of it or not

Elite English school? Northampton School for Boys looks like it’s a well thought of grammar school, yes, but ‘elite English school’ makes it sound like Moore went to Eton, Harrow, or at the very least an independent boarding school. I reckon he hates HP cos it’s badly written and pervasive meself.

Moore is a real one

He is my hero. I bought his BBC course and it's just gentle encouragement and good suggestions in 5-minute chunks. Truly a guy who understands a huge range of the human experience. He was a polyamorous garbage collector who did alt-weekly cartoons before he got big.

"While I myself ONLY suffered..." an extremely Moore intro to his trauma

given what seems to have been - given the plethora of memoiristic evidence - the almost omnipresent structural presence of sexual assault in the English public school system, I'd be interested to read an essay that talks about much of late 20/early 21c English fiction in that light