It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I … - Harry Mathews

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Be glad you have a mother who loves you. " He was glad of that. A lot, since she was basically the only person on earth who did. But now that he was a full head taller than her, it was weird when she tried to cuddle him like he was a baby. He could be almost seven feet tall like Acheron, and she'd probably still try to pull him into her lap.

Harry Mathews

It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the readers opportunities to follow it at every step.

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There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.

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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.

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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 language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.

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You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

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I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.

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