Compelling Chords 



author. All he has done is to put in 

 language, which you follow with joy 

 and satisfaction, the very things you 

 have thought for years, but had never 

 undertaken to communicate to others. 

 Possibly you may never have tried to 

 do so. Perhaps you questioned your 

 own powers. Perchance you figured 

 that there were not enough people in 

 the world who care for a dark path 

 through a pine forest, for instance, to 

 warrant you in trying to say anything 

 about it to anybody else. You just 

 kept on at your job in some counting- 

 room, store, law office or factory, wear- 

 ing out soul and good shoe leather 

 trying to pile up cash enough to buy 

 something that would probably fail 

 to bring you the long-anticipated pleas- 

 ure by the time you were able to 

 obtain it and yet all the time the 

 picture of that woodland trail could 

 not be altogether banished. And some 

 day, some night, you will fall in with 

 some writer who has allowed himself 



