There Are Many Things I’ve Written That

I Graduated In 1952 And Went To Europe, With Niki And Our First Child Laura, Who Was Then A Year Old.

And Then, When I Left Princeton In The Middle Of My Sophomore Year, I Went Into The Navy.

I Also Had This Mistaken Dream, Fantasy Really - Perhaps Because I'm Good At Languages - Of Being Able In Both Italy And France To Become Someone Else Through My Fluency In The Language.

Write About The Things That Attract You. Choose Your Subjects The Way You Used To Choose Your Toys: Out Of Desire.

Syntax And Vocabulary Are Overwhelming Constraints --the Rules That Run Us. Language Is Using Us To Talk --we Think We're Using The Language, But Language Is Doing The Thinking, We're Its Slavish Agents.