she is having trouble reconciling the art with the man those books those early books which seemed so strident once so masterful so all-encompassing they have begun to lose their luster have slipped in her estimation that is the remarkable thing about books she thinks when she is back at last in her room at the glaser house they are so singular purely the product of a single mind and you have to take the good with the bad do n't you there are no perfect people we 've all our flaws .