Heinz Risse is a writer not by vocation but by avocation. He has earned a comfortable living as an independent certified accountant that frees him from the necessity of having to write according to the dictates of the literary marketplace or to please publishers and readers. In the early nineteenth century Joseph Görres, a German romanticist, decried the rationalism of the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution it brought forth because these forces were turning the world into a workhouse and destroying the leisure necessary for a life of fulfillment; a spiritual descendant of romanticism, Risse has solved the problem--at least for himself--by gaining the independence required for the development of his spirit and intellect. His dual life is for him the ideal one, for he can guard his artistic integrity and need never prostitute his art for the sake of the necessities of life...