The Greatest Obstacle To Pleasure

The First And Perhaps The Most Important Requirement For A Successful Writing Performance - And Writing Is A Performance, Like Singing An Aria Or Dancing A Jig - Is To Understand The Nature Of The Occasion.

I Was In Venice Teaching, So I Reread Henry James's "the Wings Of The Dove." I Love James.

In Short, It Became Possible - Never Easy, But Possible - In The Poet Auden's Phrase To Find The Mortal World Enough.

First Of All, There Was A Volcano Of Words, An Eruption Of Words That Shakespeare Had Never Used Before That Had Never Been Used In The English Language Before. It's Astonishing. It Pours Out Of Him.

[people In 1600s] Didn't Have Many Books. They Would Have Been Staggered By The Personal Libraries We Have Today, Because Books Back Then Were Incredibly Expensive.