I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.

