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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: into gold? The artist has to do only with that - he knows nothing
of any baser metal. I've led the life of the world, with my wife
and my progeny; the clumsy conventional expensive materialised
vulgarised brutalised life of London. We've got everything
handsome, even a carriage - we're perfect Philistines and
prosperous hospitable eminent people. But, my dear fellow, don't
try to stultify yourself and pretend you don't know what we HAVEN'T
got. It's bigger than all the rest. Between artists - come!" the
Master wound up. "You know as well as you sit there that you'd put
a pistol-ball into your brain if you had written my books!"
It struck his listener that the tremendous talk promised by him at
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