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(10:22.) Give us a moment....The paperbacks will not go out of print except for short periods. They will not build up quickly in sales, but they will, and they will provide a dependable income. In ways the entire picture will change.
The paperback Personal Reality will be highly important in the ultimate changes that do take place. You are in an in-between period. If you went out in a grand manner, publicizing the books, appearing on shows, you could indeed quicken the pace—but in so doing other intangibles would also be altered. There is a great difference between keeping the people always in mind, and playing to the crowd for whatever reasons, but there would be a tendency for purposes to be altered.
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I have nothing against bestsellers, and as I predicted the books will succeed financially beyond anything you would have thought—but over a period of time, in a dependable fashion, and in a way that will also best be suited to the temper of the times. That is, the books will have a strong active part to play over the period of your lifetimes, rather than for example selling in the millions in a year or two, then vanishing from the scene.
[... 19 paragraphs ...]
His characteristic posture worked for what it was, and it was locked together in all of its parts. It is becoming unlocked. In that process, and only at times, there are periods when it seems his body, or certain portions of it, are less dependable.
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