There is no reason why getting published should be taken as an index of
anything. Soon everyone will be able to publish anything he wants and summon
readers from the vasty deep. But will they come when he summons them?
Fortune's Real-Life Courtroom Quote #3:
Q: When he we had you gone and had she, if she wanted to and were
able, for the time being excluding all the restraints on her not to
go, gone also, would he have brought you, meaning you and she, with
him to the station?...