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Then he said by X Y and Z he'd fix the noisemakers in the morning and fix them good and looked for approbation to his trembling assistants. Then he swore twenty or thirty times for luck, turned, and thundered out on the heels of his fleeing confreres who almost tripped over each other in their haste to escape from The Enormous Room.
There was a time, and in fact it is only now drawing to a close, when the short story was exploited by interested moneymakers who made such a loud noise that you could hear nothing else without great difficulty. The most successful of these noisemakers are still shouting, but their heart is in it no longer.
The quiet sincere man who has something to tell you should not be talked down by the noisemakers. He should have his hearing. He is real. And we need him. That is why I have set myself the annual task of reading so many short stories. I am looking for the man and woman with something to say, who cares very much indeed about how he says it.
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