And so the author can live with it (and quite comfortably in fact) if the payment is large.

What has the reader got to do then?

Live with it.

And perhaps heed Woolf's advice: Read with an open mind.

Withhold judgment. Hear him out. Share the author's unique experience of which words are a mere expression. And let “the signs and hints of almost imperceptible fineness” become as clear as a picture.

Or don't read a book at all.

This last, I'm afraid, is exactly what most people are doing today.

Kidding aside, I thank you for keeping with (not keeping clear of) me for another year. I'm taking a vacation at yearend and will be back at the keyboard mid-January. I wish you all, my dear readers, an enjoyable 2009 with great health and, not to forget, a little money of your own.

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