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an't expect to pick Great Discoveries off bushes. If you can't be a pioneer what's wrong with leading a crusade?'
'A crusade?'
'Certainly.'
'Against what?'
'Tonypandy.'
The boy's face lost its blankness. It looked suddenly amused, like someone who has just seen a joke. 'It's the damnedest silliest name, isn't it!' he remarked. 'If people have been pointing out for three hundred and fifty years that Richard didn't murder his nephews and a schoolbook can still say, in words of one syllable and without qualification, that he did, then it seems to me that Tonypandy has a long lead on you. It's time you got busy.'
'But what can I do when people like Walpole and those have failed?'
'There's that old saying about constant water and its effect on stone.'
'Mr Grant, right now I feel an awfully feeble little trickle.'
'You look it, I must say. I've never seen such self-pity. That's no mood to start bucking the British public in. You'll be giving enough weight away as it is.'
'Because I've not written a book before, you mean?'
'No, that doesn't matter at all. Most people's first books are their best anyway; it's the one they wanted
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