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Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limit

Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited. – Harry Mathews

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My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. Im not kidding. – Harry Mathews

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Poetry
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Harry Mathews
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Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say theyre saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. – Harry Mathews

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Poetry
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Harry Mathews
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Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift. – Harry Mathews

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Translation
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