Miss Lutece and I will consider collaboration after we assess the work of others and have our own to our satisfaction.
[It seemed, to him, the soundest way to approach the matter. They had, after all, conquered this barrier before. Rosalind had disproved his entire book, dedicated to the difficulties in crossing universes. She had opened the way for him, and he had been his own experiment.
Then they'd spent nearly twenty years improving the process.
Once they could see the work of others, judge it according to its values and hindrances, and see how it would complement their own, they would begin to discuss collaboration.]
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[It seemed, to him, the soundest way to approach the matter. They had, after all, conquered this barrier before. Rosalind had disproved his entire book, dedicated to the difficulties in crossing universes. She had opened the way for him, and he had been his own experiment.
Then they'd spent nearly twenty years improving the process.
Once they could see the work of others, judge it according to its values and hindrances, and see how it would complement their own, they would begin to discuss collaboration.]