In any case, you can't have effective allegory in times when people are swept this way and that by momentary convictions, because everyone will read it differently. You can't indicate moral values when morality changes with what is being done, because there is no accepted basis of judgment. And you cannot show the operation of grace when grace is cut off from nature or when the very possibility of grace is denied, because no one will have the least idea of what you are about.
Most__ut not all__f the writers I knew then were young men who cherished their independence, were unconcerned about job security, and were serious about their writing. They didn__ want to be anyone__ employee if it interfered with their writing. They were halfway or all the way outside the mainstream and were often not interested in becoming part of the burgeoning corporate society. They had more freedom than your average American.
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Most__ut not all__f the writers I knew then were young men who cherished their independence, were unconcerned about job security, and were serious about their writing. They didn__ want to be anyone__ employee if it interfered with their writing. They were halfway or all the way outside the mainstream and were often not interested in becoming part of the burgeoning corporate society. They had more freedom than your average American.
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