Pleasure is a reward, given to the human system by evolution in return for services rendered to the preservation and increase of the species. I serve nothing natural in the business of making stories. It does not advance the race a jot that a writer tells tales of doubt and darkness and revelation. Why should I be rewarded with pleasure? I think the truest evidence of the divine in our dealings is the fact that our imaginations are indulged at all, that we are not simply breeding machines, programmed to procreate. The queer in his sterile heat, the anchorite in her sealed cell, the scientist
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