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...continual laying of bets as to which way that nervous and feline creature, Popular Taste, is going to jump. And, generally, it jumps the other way. For the average novel hardly recoups its publisher for his initial expenses?if that. Or so they tell the author. But the exceptional novel???Gosh, how the money rolls...
Berlin again?utter poverty?furious labor, this time on a novel???failure once more?an attempt as a tutor ? as an actor ? as a tutor again, and this time an interval of peace, of what was almost luxury, as the protege of a rich banker. Then a deliberate return to the slums?the impulse to write?to probe into odd corners of life too strong to be denied. At last the edge of the precipice?no reasonable future in sight?abruptly followed by what proved salvation?the offered editorship of a new political weekly. The book ends there...