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Harry Mathews

American

February 14, 1930

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When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city.

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

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What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.

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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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I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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