Lobbyists want it. Ideologists want it. Everybody wants it. So the human consciousness at present is a sort of battlefield. And you know what Tolstoy tells us about battles in War and Peace.
Nobody really knows what is going on during a battle.
This is really the test of an artist's power, to compel the embattled and the distracted to listen. Nor is it simply a matter of getting ordinary attention. Attention of a certain quality is what you want. Maybe that sort of attention is no longer there. But it seems to be there, because when I publish a book.