About Eva Hoffman: Eva Hoffman is a Polish American writer and academic.
When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.
Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.
The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.
