I feel it right to warn the reader that he can very well skip this chapter without losing the thread of such story as I have to tell, since for the m… - William Somerset Maugham

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I feel it right to warn the reader that he can very well skip this chapter without losing the thread of such story as I have to tell, since for the most part it is nothing more than the account of a conversation that I had with Larry. I should add, however, that except for this conversation I should perhaps not have thought it worth while to write this book.