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Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was elev

Well, I had this little notion – I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it it was my great refuge through adolescence. – 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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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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