After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half.
Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but lan… - Harry Mathews
Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but lan…
- Harry Mathews
I think situations are more important than plot and character. - Harry Mathews
I think situations are more important than plot and character.
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone els… - Harry Mathews
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone els…
I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952. - Harry Mathews
I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am. - Harry Mathews
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little … - Harry Mathews
My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little …
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt. - Harry Mathews
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt.
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that un… - Harry Mathews
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that un…
It’s true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found … - Harry Mathews
It’s true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found …
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