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where he talks about his
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aspiration as a writer.
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And this is remarkable for how different it is
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from someone like nabokov or John Barth
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or many of our other writers on the syllabus:
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If I could fasten the mind of the reader
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upon words so firmly that
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he would forget words and
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be conscious only of his response,
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I felt that I would
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be in sight of knowing
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how to write narrative.