A fair plan. You know the strange thing is I was trying to avoid the sense that, in coming up with interview questions, I was the one taking the test. It was getting in the way of my simple sense of pleasure in the opportunity to talk with you and elicit a few thoughts. William Carlos Williams saying that he'd rather go off and die like a sick dog than be a well-know literary person in America. That aspect of age I was not even thinking about.
Friends thus are the fabric of one's life.
No man, woman or child is an island. Dewey, whose ideas were among the foundation of Black Mountain, stressed how school should be an extension of civil society and continuous with it, and the student encouraged to operate as a member of a community. Put simply, the terms of the common world are those one uses as definition, as context, as term. I cannot think of a literature or a politics or an aesthetic as existing significantly apart from that source. A specific neighborhood will hardly be the whole world, so to speak, but it is one where one's given to begin.