“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Before you send out such messages, then, see if you want to accept the consequences. Work such as ours is a different matter than a novel. A novelist may indeed maintain seclusion from the world—and while the world may not like it, it doesn’t care enough, except for a few publicity seekers, to track him down.

(To me:) For all of your complaints, if you will forgive me, you have exactly what you want from Prentice. They are distant from you. You do not want them breathing down your neck. You might find yourselves amazingly uncomfortable, despite what you think your reaction would be, if Prentice suddenly began initiating publicity campaigns, ad campaigns.

(“Well, supposing we did concentrate upon increased sales, and did more publicity work on radio and television, for instance: wouldn’t these things increase Jane’s feeling of vulnerability? Here she has the symptoms as a kind of protection, so I’m wondering about our reactions if we took steps that would put us more in the public eye—left us open to more criticism—as well as praise—for instance. How might she react under the new circumstances”)