For my friend
KIRBY McCAULEY
Perceptive in appreciation as he is persuasive in agency
To Whom I Owe Much

I had an acquaintance who had begun, before I knew him, as a painter but who took to "compiling and editing" those costly, glossy books about art which are said to sell in suprising numbers but which no person one knows ever buys and no person one sees ever opens.

Maybe it really is just part of the fall of man and irredeemable without special grace.