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In his artful novel, The Master, Colm Toibin brings to life Henry James' rare sensibility. Toibin plumbs the writer's psyche, detailing James' rich interior life and progressive vision and shows the writer at work shaping the contours of stories. Toibin emphasizes the importance of solitude:

"He loved the glorious silence a morning brought, knowing that he had no appointments that afternoon and no engagements that evening. He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes the dullness came to the fore with a strange and insistent ache which he would entertain briefly, but learn to keep at bay. Mostly, however, it was the contentment he entertained; the slow ease and the silence could, once night had fallen, fill him with a happiness that nothing, no society nor the company of any individual, no glamour or glitter, could equal."

This week at TNYA's spring training, we have grown tone on swimming and learned to expect nothing from the day but blue skies, sun and water.