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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: thing red-hot. SILVERADO is an example of stuff worried and pawed
about, God knows how often, in poor health, and you can see for
yourself the result: good pages, an imperfect fusion, a certain
languor of the whole. Not, in short, art. I have told Roberts to
send you a copy of the book when it appears, where there are some
fair passages that will be new to you. My brief romance, PRINCE
OTTO - far my most difficult adventure up to now - is near an end.
I have still one chapter to write DE FOND EN COMBLE, and three or
four to strengthen or recast. The rest is done. I do not know if
I have made a spoon, or only spoiled a horn; but I am tempted to
hope the first. If the present bargain hold, it will not see the
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