"...we
have all sorts of people - disappointed poets, one - hit playwrights, college
girls - we put them on an idea in pairs and if it slows down we put two more writers
working behind them. I've had as many as three pairs working independently on
the same idea."
"Do they like that?"
"Not if they know about it. They're not geniuses-none of them could make as much any other way. But these Marquands are a husband and wife team from the East - pretty good playwrights. They've just found out they're not alone on the story and it shocks them-shocks their sense of unity - that's the word they'll use."
"But what does make the - the unity?"
Stahr hesitated - his face was grim except that his eyes twinkled. "I'm the unity," he said.
"Do they like that?"
"Not if they know about it. They're not geniuses-none of them could make as much any other way. But these Marquands are a husband and wife team from the East - pretty good playwrights. They've just found out they're not alone on the story and it shocks them-shocks their sense of unity - that's the word they'll use."
"But what does make the - the unity?"
Stahr hesitated - his face was grim except that his eyes twinkled. "I'm the unity," he said.
