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With the Psalm, the Bible is
easy for me because, as I say,

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there's an afterword
to the David book,

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and, as I say in that
afterword, I write in English.

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And Wallace Stevens and Willa
Cather and Ernest Hemingway

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and Emily Dickinson and William
Faulkner and all the writers

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I admire and know, most of them
are Protestants, the Americans.

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They read the Bible a lot.

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They heard it a lot.

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And their prose and
their actual phrases

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come out of what we call
the King James translation.

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So there's no question.

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It's a great work in English.

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I'm always interested to
read other translations.

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I pick up what I can.

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And if I'm writing about them,
I look at other translations.

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But I know which is
the great work of art.

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And that's a great work of art.

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And I'm an artist.

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I'm not a--

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I wrote The Life of David, but
I hope I'm not a biographer.

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I may be a bust as a biographer.

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I'm not a scholar.

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I wrote about stories and
the story of the stories.

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And we will have
one more question.

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