“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This does not mean you need children in the house next door. It does mean that you settle for a reasonable amount of privacy, but that you do not carry the idea to extremes. If the sound of children’s voices, or dogs, even in the distance, annoys you, then you are doing a Dr. Levine in your own ways.

Even you, however, will feel more secure with a place of your own than you would with the money drawing interest in the bank. It is a different kind of security. Your daily environment is very important to your work, and to Ruburt. The money in the bank is helpful, but if your daily environment is not conducive to your work and peace of mind, then the money security is meaningless. You will have plenty plus your house. An expensive house as such is not required. Your own ideas however of privacy and so forth in your society requires a certain amount of cash. There is nothing wrong for example with the south side. You also possess an esthetic sense, however. You require certain things of your art, and therefore you want the same things in your environment. Once you had it here, for all of your criticism. Now it is gone, and you are different.

You must forget current market values. They are artificial. I am not telling you to forget your own finances, but the contractor’s idea of the physical worth of the Foster house has only an adjacent connection with its values to you. You would be well-equipped financially to make whatever changes you want in the future.

(“I’m shocked,” Jane countered. “I loved the idea of that Foster Street house. But he’s so fucking smart—Seth—”

The Ambrose affair represents your ideas about money and the upper classes. The conflict between Easton and Ambrose is primarily of a social nature. Donna and Easton both feel in an inferior position in that regard. They have their backs up. The mores are entirely different. To some extent the conflicting ideas represent some of your own—hence your being in the middle.