I'm A Dilettante By Temperament. I Don't

When I Was Young, I Was All About Personal Sovereignty And That Junk, Because There Was No Privacy And The Available Ideologies Were Collective, Both Socialism/communism And Nationalism.

Memoir Implies The Need To Reveal Something About Yourself - To Recount Your Life For Educational Purposes.

I've Read Books In School That Were Written By Ideological Rote - They Were Brainwashers. Therefore, Any Art, Any Literature, That Has A Clearly Defined Political Goal Is Repellent To Me.

Literature Is Always Something - It Is Either Story Or Poetry, Ideally Both. That Is, You Always Know What It Is And Even If The Interpretation Is Not Available, The Experience Of Language Is.

I Don't Like Having A Teaching Job - Office Hours And Conferences And Committees And Bosses And All That - But I Tend To Enjoy Teaching, And I Design The Course In Such A Way That There'll Be Pleasure In That.