Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.
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With tigery stripes, and a face on it
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I want to be looking at them when they come
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I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.
Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.
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