“And what do you want?”
“To write as well as I can and learn as I go along. At the same time I have my life which I enjoy and which is a damned good life.”
“Hunting kudu?”
“Yes. Hunting kudu and many other things.”
“What other things?”
“Plenty of other things.”
“And you know what you want?”
“Yes.”
“You really like to do this, what you do now, this silliness of kudu?”
“Just as much as I like to be in the Prado.”
“One is not better than the other?”
“One is as necessary as the other. There are other things, too.”
“Naturally. There must be. But this sort of thing means something to you, really?”
“Truly.”
“And you know what you want?”
“Absolutely, and I get it all the time.”
“But it takes money.”
“I could always make money and besides I have been very lucky.”