You have to have a way of making a living. This is it. In a couple of years, you'll be making double your income now. . He looked as if he hoped there'd be no answer. Ron was more than ready to tell, nurturing a flicker of hope that he might win a postponement of the trip.
Every young writer has the same idea.
Well, it's about a young puppet-maker, a kind of wizard, in San Francisco, whose creations are bought and sold by an unsympathetic dealer, and who is in love with a beautiful girl who is going wrong. Then the boy gets mysterious messages on what is happening to the world and what to do about it, so he goes through ten messages, and seven phases of wisdom, encountering many disasters as the world collapses around him, always meeting up with the same dealer in different ways, and the girl, until finally they set up a new life on the ashes of the old . Ronald's words faltered and drifted off like flotsam. He looked anxiously at Mr. Shiller. I'll buy a copy when it's published, now, about Washington . . .