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What We Know Is That Shakespeare Wrote Perhaps The Most Remarkable Body Of Passionate Love Poetry In The English Language To A Young Man.

The Exercise Of Reason Is Not Available Only To Specialists; It Is Accessible To Everyone.

But I Never Listen To Music While I'm Writing.

There's A Huge Amount Of Work On Adam And Eve, From The Ancient World To The Present. Saint Augustine Was Obsessed With Them.i Don't Know If It Helps My Research, But I Get A Big Kick Out Of Mark Twain, Who Wrote "the Diaries Of Adam And Eve." He Wrote Very Funny Stuff On Them. I Sometimes Read Things That Are Loosely Related To What I'm Thinking And Writing About.

I Think The Writing Of Literature Should Give Pleasure. What Else Should It Be About? It Is Not Nuclear Physics. It Actually Has To Give Pleasure Or It Is Worth Nothing.