I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better.
I think situations are more important than plot and character. - Harry Mathews
I think situations are more important than plot and character.
- 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
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…
And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy. - Harry Mathews
And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
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…
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…
I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952. - Harry Mathews
I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.
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.
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 …
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.
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