She was so miraculously understanding, so clever, generous, even-tempered and resourceful, that the reader often feels as if, far from encouraging Yeats's silly side, her trances and table rapping simply drained it off like an outlet pipe.
Here the resourceful Minton, an inveterate reader, opens a used-book shop in a Watts storefront on Central Avenue, selling "everything from Tolstoy to Batman, from Richard Wright to Popular Mechanics". In his rented store, Paris can indulge all day in what he most loves to do: reading.
But then, I've often found Cam's readers to be a resourceful, dedicated, passionate bunch: so maybe I should have expected as much.
That's how the Book Review's former crime columnist, Newgate Callendar, greeted readers on May 23 , 1982 introducing Sue Grafton's resourceful, virtuous, unlucky-in-love sleuth, who made her debut that spring in "A Is for Alibi" and has since gone on to star in 22 more alphabet novels.
And rather than give in to self-pity while passing a typically uneventful Saturday night alone in her flat, she reminds herself, "You're not so badly off, are you?" And that, as far as the reader suspects, is who Frances Thorpe is: kind, resourceful under duress, philosophical about her lot.
"It is right that anything a child sees, feels, or thinks be our grist," Barnett's picture book manifesto commendably insists, and the resourceful children in these three books will certainly motivate young readers to extend the stories in their own imaginations as they read and reread them.
In both books, the reader becomes deeply absorbed in the account of resourceful humans solving a string of life-threatening technical challenges in an unforgiving environment.
Now that I'm older, I have a grudging respect for the mystery novel and its resourceful practitioners, writers whose art depends on catching the world-weary reader unawares.
If that has a slightly homey sententiousness, her own storytelling avoids it, for Solnit is a resourceful spinner of yarns and forger of symbols, a powerful reporter, a marvellous reader of other writers' works, quick and deft with aphorisms.
Resourceful binders used scraps of waste paper or vellum in their bindings, including material that modern readers would never consider to be waste, such as pages of sheet music and magnificent early manuscripts written on vellum.
