The Importance of Patience

"There's an idea in my work without which I wouldn't have given a straw for the whole job," he said. "It stretches this little trick of mind from book to book, and everything else, comparatively, plays over the surface of it." Vericor laid his hand on my shoulder to show the illusion wasn't to my personal appearance. The order, the form, the texture of my books will perhaps someday constitute for the initiated a complete representation of it,. So it's naturally the thing for the critic to look for. This seemed a responsibility indeed.