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323:, Mays writes: "There are, of course, writers who persist in doing what they feel they have to do and succeed willy-nilly in the popular way of success, either to their dismay or indifference because it was never the point. I give as examples Billy Mills (in Ireland), Susan Howe (USA) and J.H. Prynne (UK), although the assumption that they write for themselves is entirely my own"
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