No one would have control over his work except him.
Is this what the others feel sometimes, when I laugh at them for looking so serious over their work?
It is all about developing a cold eye with which to look over your own work.
"I must take a last look over my work here, you know."
We spent an hour looking over work he had done down in the plains, and then I took my leave.
So I call each one in only after carefully thinking over his or her work during the winter.
As a whole, though, they do suggest an author looking back over his own work and trying to reduce it to order.
For others it was to own a piece of a new, growing business, or have more creative control over their work.
At the very least, these societies bring people together over a favorite author or work.
Over ten years' work quickly forgotten: he would be old news within a week.