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But Gunther is a published magazine writer ("When to Worry About an Office Romance"—Good Housekeeping, March 1961) and does not really need help. Writing of weekend sin (overrated, but still deplorable), he refuses to panic, observing that "it is not the long stretch of workless time itself that most often causes sin but the attitudes of people toward the weekend and the needs and dreams they bring to it from the work week."
Here the reader suspects that Gunther's book itself may be the transition between the Hollow World books and the Stuffed with Meaning kind. In a summing up that is almost a haiku, he elevates the spirit: "The weekend is like a big red apple. Some would eat it too fast and get indigestion. But it is still a lovely apple."