Most of the books published now are expectable from word one. One knows that one will never encounter the heart of the speaker. The speaker has put his heart somewhere else, and has gotten down to the business of making as many people as possible pay attention to what is being said. I don’t want the attention of many. (…) If we go back to Beckett, or to various bits by Thomas Bernhard, these examples seem to represent an exception. One wants to find the new. And, in finding it, do everything one can to fight for it.