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Chapter 43

           Notonlydidthestorytakewiththefiction-readers,butthosewhoread"TheShameoftheSun"withaviditywerelikewiseattractedtothesea-storybythecosmicgraspofmasterywithwhichhehadhandledit. Firsthehadattackedtheliteratureofmysticism,andhaddoneitexceedingwell; and,next,hehadsuccessfullysuppliedtheveryliteraturehehadexposited,thusprovinghimselftobethatraregenius,acriticandacreatorinone. 

           Moneypouredinonhim,famepouredinonhim; heflashed,comet-like,throughtheworldofliterature,andhewasmoreamusedthaninterestedbythestirhewasmaking. Onethingwaspuzzlinghim,alittlethingthatwouldhavepuzzledtheworldhaditknown. Buttheworldwouldhavepuzzledoverhisbepuzzlementratherthanoverthelittlethingthattohimloomedgigantic. JudgeBlountinvitedhimtodinner. Thatwasthelittlething,orthebeginningofthelittlething,thatwassoontobecomethebigthing. HehadinsultedJudgeBlount,treatedhimabominably,andJudgeBlount,meetinghimonthestreet,invitedhimtodinner. MartinbethoughthimselfofthenumerousoccasionsonwhichhehadmetJudgeBlountattheMorses’andwhenJudgeBlounthadnotinvitedhimtodinner. Whyhadhenotinvitedhimtodinnerthen?heaskedhimself. Hehadnotchanged. HewasthesameMartinEden. Whatmadethedifference? Thefactthatthestuffhehadwrittenhadappearedinsidethecoversofbooks? Butitwasworkperformed. Itwasnotsomethinghehaddonesince. 

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