I Was Immediately Smitten With An Attraction To This Culture, Not In The Sense Of High Culture But Of The Basic Way People Behaved Towards One Another.

I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.

Harry Mathews

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I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing.

Harry Mathews

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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 else through my fluency in the language.

Harry Mathews

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And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.

Harry Mathews

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And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.

Harry Mathews

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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.

Harry Mathews

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