"Between the amateur and the professional, ... there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different integration, a different nervous and muscular and psychological organization. ... A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom."
Bernard DeVoto

January 1, 1970

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Ch. 7: The Winter Lodge (pp. 158–9)

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