"I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne."

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Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne—who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues.

— David Markson