 When Roy defends it "by calling it a 'work in progress,' he recalls for me G. K. Chesterton’s insight that 'if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly'.The first airplane didn’t soar, either, but it’s very good that someone got a prototype off the ground... What does it matter if the author of "Chin P’ing Mei" might be less than Flaubert?Why should anyone have to feel defensive?"