The reader wants to be devoured by him; she wants to be eaten, even if she is being very expensively educated and playing the viola reluctantly.

But only temporarily angry words, nor is it willing.

They may forsake work to focus on their studies, hardly a bad thing, or be willing to wait for the right job.

Three days later, the eccentric Midwesterner was still at it, completing chapter after chapter, seemingly of his own free will.

The first virtue they possess is courage, the willingness to go off to a strange place.