“My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.”
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All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.
I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.
I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.
