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The Artist is concerned with production, the Dealer with consumption – naturally enough, since the consumer pays. The Artist’s drive is inner, the Dealer’s is pulled by the market-place. My fiction is and is likely to remain a research system: still worthwhile even if unpublished.

The attempt to turn the discoveries into something of coherent form for public consumption – on the basis that the process of discovery, or at least that part of it appearing as fiction, is judged by publishers to be of insufficient interest to the public – is where those incredibly difficult booklets come in. And those, of course, I can conveniently publish myself. The trouble is writing them.

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