... vanity, no pettiness, no person-alities. There were only the words, and the ideas they ex-pressed, that were our job, together, to get right. Nothingelse mattered. And everything that mattered ... needn t start off knowingmuch science. Some of the best of them do, but some of the best of them don t. They must, though, be able to learn sci-ence, be eager to wade into its complexities, ask ... work together, Ilet Elise read it. At the time, she was tactful, even gentle. Butlater, whenever I wrote something that pleased her, any com-pliments she dispensed would take the form of how,...