As for Miles' absence from the next volume, other theories are: he's too ill (he's a manic depressive and agoraphobic, according to his on-line "diary");
Indeed Miles' diary makes his illness sound extremely unpleasant. Certainly if its as bad as it sounds it seems unlikely he'd be capable of the kind of sustained effort required to produce About Time 6. I've not been reading the diary long enough to know if its an ongoing problem though or one which has become significantly worse in recent months.
he hates late eighties Who too much to say anything Mad Norwegian's lawyers will allow to go into print; he's fallen out with Tat Wood (I have no idea if that's true, but he was very rude about him here).
In the past Lawrence has generally cited "artistic differences" usually with a deeply (and frequently unprofessionally) personal thrust to the criticism as his reason for leaving projects but I've often felt that in reality it has boiled down to "this is getting stale, I'm not doing it any more" with the unfortunate addition of "you are an idiot (and possibly morally bankrupt) if you can't appreciate the fact" as a parting shot which obscures the real reason. This is just speculation though...
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he's too ill (he's a manic depressive and agoraphobic, according to his on-line "diary");
Indeed Miles' diary makes his illness sound extremely unpleasant. Certainly if its as bad as it sounds it seems unlikely he'd be capable of the kind of sustained effort required to produce About Time 6. I've not been reading the diary long enough to know if its an ongoing problem though or one which has become significantly worse in recent months.
he hates late eighties Who too much to say anything Mad Norwegian's lawyers will allow to go into print;
he's fallen out with Tat Wood (I have no idea if that's true, but he was very rude about him here).
In the past Lawrence has generally cited "artistic differences" usually with a deeply (and frequently unprofessionally) personal thrust to the criticism as his reason for leaving projects but I've often felt that in reality it has boiled down to "this is getting stale, I'm not doing it any more" with the unfortunate addition of "you are an idiot (and possibly morally bankrupt) if you can't appreciate the fact" as a parting shot which obscures the real reason. This is just speculation though...