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I Think It Was W.h. Auden Who Said He Was Lucky That His First Favorite Poet Was Thomas Hardy, Who Was A Good But Not A Great Poet, Because If You Are Exposed To The Greats Too Soon It Can Just Squash You As A Writer.

I Don't Believe In A Conspiracy To Hide The Existence Of Extraterrestrial Life.

My Entire Life Has Been An Attempt To Get Back To The Kind Of Feelings You Have On A Field. The Sense Of Brotherhood, The Esprit De Corps, The Focus - There Being No Past Or Future, Just The Ball. As Trite As It Sounds, I Was Happiest Playing Ball.

In The U.s., Oddly, We Have Images Of Men As Arrogant And Aggressive.

At Princeton I Wrote My Junior Paper On Virginia Woolf, And For My Senior Thesis I Wrote On Samuel Beckett. I Wrote Some About "between The Acts" And "mrs. Dalloway'' But Mostly About "to The Lighthouse." With Beckett I Focused, Perversely, On His Novels, "molloy," "malone Dies," And "the Unnamable." That's When I Decided I Should Never Write Again.