And it was a tremendous--an incredibly tremendous--opportunity.
"You know pretty well how much I've done," he continued.

"I've got a good deal of material together and a good deal of the actual writing is done.

But there is ever so much still to do.

It's getting beyond me, as I said just now." I looked at him again, rather incredulously.

He stood before me, a thin parallelogram of black with a mosaic of white about the throat.