1941 December 30[Booth Tarkington] to A. Neall, Saturday Evening Post, writes concerning his character "Ames Lanning" and about serials in general, "I should keep a reminder-slogan before me on the wall of my workroom: 'Reader's got to LIKE somebody!' -I'm too much interested in the yoomanbeins as such, in my stories, making 'em out of realities that swarm them together from mosaic memory cubes - too absorbed in that to remember that the reader, too, isn't (in numbers) of this persuasion. He has to like the important people, as in some measure, replicas of himself, or else they must seem to be his neighbor (exposed) or they must be so queer, and probably monstrous, as to interest him in the fairy story of their doings, or else one of them must be the reader himself (a perfect being who is also the author) having wunfle [wonderful?] adventures and love affairs vicariously."