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(1. More on my stomach, which though it may have eased off in its discomfort a little, still was too bothersome.

For a while your beliefs, ideas, and artistic ability merged at one level. You moved out of that level. Millions of people consider that the ordinary, accepted mode of existence. The story lines that went with those cartoons amused the people. You did your best to illustrate those stories. You could have stayed in the field. But even from the beginning you knew it was a transitory part of your development.

Many novelists, say, of some considerable ability in writing, flesh out those same stories with characters only a bit more mature, and are considered quite serious artists. But you did have a fling at meeting your times directly, and of reaping those rewards, personally, socially, and financially. Your parents were pleased. That was an acceptable way of using your abilities, but your adolescent mentality was the usual adult mentality, and so you grew out of the framework.

This was not one decision, but involved multitudinous small issues in your lives from childhood on, and represents aspects of your personalities that you must recognize and honor. When I say honor, I mean that it is futile to wish your natures were other than they are.

You have to be fairly intellectual to read Ruburt’s books. You think my books require much effort, and people often say so—yet you get letters from people who are nearly illiterate. This is nothing against Ruburt’s books, for they are excellent—but people become frightened sometimes because they do not want to compare themselves to Ruburt. They want to think that I spring automatically into your lives, as Superman. They did not question Superman. Only a simple change of clothing was required for our hero, Mr. Kent. They want to endow me with an authority that will make up for the authority they are trying to be free of. They do not want Ruburt’s inquiring mind to intrude.

(Jane was out of trance instantly. She’d been drinking beer, and had to go. I had a couple more questions, growing out of tonight’s material:

(2. How will “Unknown” Reality do? Seth’s material this evening was making me wonder if my notes were going to be detrimental in that work. But I was also simply curious about whether “Unknown” Reality was going to do as well as the other Seth books.

His head has been congested for a long time—the neck, jaw, sinus, eyes all being affected, and that condition began before any symptoms were noticeable. The sinus inhaler was a crutch. When he became nervous he didn’t breathe properly. His head became congested and he used the inhaler.