[The Ambassadors by Henry James]@TWC D-Link bookThe Ambassadors PREFACE 9/27
But it has no sooner done this than it has to take account of a PROCESS--from which only when it's the basest of the servants of man, incurring ignominious dismissal with no "character," does it, and whether under some muddled pretext of morality or on any other, pusillanimously edge away.
The process, that of the expression, the literal squeezing-out, of value is another affair--with which the happy luck of mere finding has little to do.
The joys of finding, at this stage, are pretty well over; that quest of the subject as a whole by "matching," as the ladies say at the shops, the big piece with the snippet, having ended, we assume, with a capture.
The subject is found, and if the problem is then transferred to the ground of what to do with it the field opens out for any amount of doing.
This is precisely the infusion that, as I submit, completes the strong mixture.
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