But what really intrigued me was the study of phonetics, that was very deepened in Latin, in English, in German. We had to do that to become at the — I mean not a teacher of that, because it was more simple, but I was very, very interested in this kind of use of the words, the origins and things, but studying it like that regularly, I mean very — I mean how can I say, really going from the beginning, studying the language, the origins, the roots. ((People Of Talk, Where The Life Comes From)) And this was, I think, the — what I found that I liked at the university. The other things I really didn’t care, let’s say — I’m not snobby, I’m not like that, but for instance reading the literature of Shakespeare we had to read in class each one, things like that. ((Stand In A Circle, We Were Africans))

This was very interesting, but this I think didn’t come to me. But when I came to the poems, to the Romantic poets from England, then I also liked it, because we would have to study very, very specific words that the guys used and the tests were like that.