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Harry Mathews

"What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading."

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"What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading."

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"Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited."
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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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