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"I remember, initially, when I was setting up to start the book. I made a list of the kinds of things I wanted to touch on, and one of them was the five senses. I wanted the reader to be able to see, hear, smell, touch, taste things – put details in there that would convey as full a picture of the time as I could. Along with that was, well what is the extent of human sexuality? I can’t possibly touch on all the different nuances and variations, but I can try to address some aspects of sexuality that were there. In retrospect, Berlin at the time was known for being a very attractive hotbed for that kind of life. If you were a homosexual living anywhere in the vicinity of Berlin and you weren’t completely repressed or closeted about it, that’s the place you went."
- Jason Lutes
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NEWSARAMA: When you started this series, what was it about Berlin, circa the late 1920s and early 30s, that you found so compelling, and how did you decide on the focus for the story you’re telling?
JASON LUTES: It was a very impulsive decision, not based on any … I had very little knowledge of that period of German history, and like most of my creative endeavors, it started with an impulsive decision to follow up on a specific subject. I just followed it – not to the bitter end, yet, but I chose it really at random and plumbed its depths as much as I am able.
The more I got into it, the more I read about it after making the decision, the more I found that was genuinely interesting to me, and that resonated with the way I look at the world and the things that are going on the world currently. The deeper I got into it, the more sense it made. But it was initially pretty arbitrary.
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