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Wordstruck Is Exactly What I Was—and Still Am: Crazy About The Sound Of Words, The Look Of Words, The Taste Of Words, The Feeling For Words On The Tongue And In The Mind.

I'm Happy To Have My Own Opinion And Air It When I Think It's Necessary.

We Spent A Month In Japan Last Year, A Week In Istanbul For The United Nations, And Nearly Three Months In My Native Nova Scotia, Where My Two Brothers Have Homes; And We'll Go Back There This Summer.

I Grew Up In Kind Of The Last Generation Of Canadians Who Thought Things That Were Happening In Britain Were More Important, Almost, Than What Was Happening In Canada. And My Mother Was Fervently Of That Opinion.

Well, I Had A Small Degree, That Little Infection Of Skepticism About America Which Resides In The Minds Of Even America's Closest Friends. That America Can't Be Quite As Good As It Says It Is. And Why Does It Need So Relentlessly To Keep Saying How Good It Is?