Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was.
Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.