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"

I

meant

that

I

was

going

to

work

at

my

writing

.

"

Her

face

fell

,

and

he

went

on

hastily

.

"

Don

’

t

misjudge

me

.

I

am

not

going

in

this

time

with

any

iridescent

ideas

.

It

is

to

be

a

cold

,

prosaic

,

matter

-

of

-

fact

business

proposition

.

It

is

better

than

going

to

sea

again

,

and

I

shall

earn

more

money

than

any

position

in

Oakland

can

bring

an

unskilled

man

.

"

"

You

see

,

this

vacation

I

have

taken

has

given

me

perspective

.

I

haven

’

t

been

working

the

life

out

of

my

body

,

and

I

haven

’

t

been

writing

,

at

least

not

for

publication

.

All

I

’

ve

done

has

been

to

love

you

and

to

think

.

I

’

ve

read

some

,

too

,

but

it

has

been

part

of

my

thinking

,

and

I

have

read

principally

magazines

.

I

have

generalized

about

myself

,

and

the

world

,

my

place

in

it

,

and

my

chance

to

win

to

a

place

that

will

be

fit

for

you

.

Also

,

I

’

ve

been

reading

Spencer

’

s

‘

Philosophy

of

Style

,

’

and

found

out

a

lot

of

what

was

the

matter

with

me

—

or

my

writing

,

rather

;

and

for

that

matter

with

most

of

the

writing

that

is

published

every

month

in

the

magazines

.

"

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"

But

the

upshot

of

it

all

—

of

my

thinking

and

reading

and

loving

—

is

that

I

am

going

to

move

to

Grub

Street

.

I

shall

leave

masterpieces

alone

and

do

hack

-

work

—

jokes

,

paragraphs

,

feature

articles

,

humorous

verse

,

and

society

verse

—

all

the

rot

for

which

there

seems

so

much

demand

.

Then

there

are

the

newspaper

syndicates

,

and

the

newspaper

short

-

story

syndicates

,

and

the

syndicates

for

the

Sunday

supplements

.

I

can

go

ahead

and

hammer

out

the

stuff

they

want

,

and

earn

the

equivalent

of

a

good

salary

by

it

.

There

are

free

-

lances

,

you

know

,

who

earn

as

much

as

four

or

five

hundred

a

month

.

I

don

’

t

care

to

become

as

they

;

but

I

’

ll

earn

a

good

living

,

and

have

plenty

of

time

to

myself

,

which

I

wouldn

’

t

have

in

any

position

.

"

"

Then

,

I

’

ll

have

my

spare

time

for

study

and

for

real

work

.

In

between

the

grind

I

’

ll

try

my

hand

at

masterpieces

,

and

I

’

ll

study

and

prepare

myself

for

the

writing

of

masterpieces

.

Why

,

I

am

amazed

at

the

distance

I

have

come

already

.

When

I

first

tried

to

write

,

I

had

nothing

to

write

about

except

a

few

paltry

experiences

which

I

neither

understood

nor

appreciated

.

But

I

had

no

thoughts

.

I

really

didn

’

t

.

I

didn

’

t

even

have

the

words

with

which

to

think

.

My

experiences

were

so

many

meaningless

pictures

.

But

as

I

began

to

add

to

my

knowledge

,

and

to

my

vocabulary

,

I

saw

something

more

in

my

experiences

than

mere

pictures

.

I

retained

the

pictures

and

I

found

their

interpretation

.

That

was

when

I

began

to

do

good

work

,

when

I

wrote

‘

Adventure

,

’

‘

Joy

,

’

‘

The

Pot

,

’

‘

The

Wine

of

Life

,

’

‘

The

Jostling

Street

,

’

the

‘

Love

-

cycle

,

’

and

the

‘

Sea

Lyrics

.

’

I

shall

write

more

like

them

,

and

better

;

but

I

shall

do

it

in

my

spare

time

.

My

feet

are

on

the

solid

earth

,

now

.

Hack

-

work

and

income

first

,

masterpieces

afterward

.

Just

to

show

you

,

I

wrote

half

a

dozen

jokes

last

night

for

the

comic

weeklies

;

and

just

as

I

was

going

to

bed

,

the

thought

struck

me

to

try

my

hand

at

a

triolet

—

a

humorous

one

;

and

inside

an

hour

I

had

written

four

.

They

ought

to

be

worth

a

dollar

apiece

.

Four

dollars

right

there

for

a

few

afterthoughts

on

the

way

to

bed

.

"

"

Of

course

it

’

s

all

valueless

,

just

so

much

dull

and

sordid

plodding

;

but

it

is

no

more

dull

and

sordid

than

keeping

books

at

sixty

dollars

a

month

,

adding

up

endless

columns

of

meaningless

figures

until

one

dies

.

And

furthermore

,

the

hack

-

work

keeps

me

in

touch

with

things

literary

and

gives

me

time

to

try

bigger

things

.

"

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"

But

what

good

are

these

bigger

-

things

,

these

masterpieces

?

"

Ruth

demanded

.

"

You

can

’

t

sell

them

.

"

"

Oh

,

yes

,

I

can

,

"

he

began

;

but

she

interrupted

.

"

All

those

you

named

,

and

which

you

say

yourself

are

good

—

you

have

not

sold

any

of

them

.

We

can

’

t

get

married

on

masterpieces

that

won

’

t

sell

.

"

"

Then

we

’

ll

get

married

on

triolets

that

will

sell

,

"

he

asserted

stoutly

,

putting

his

arm

around

her

and

drawing

a

very

unresponsive

sweetheart

toward

him

.

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