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July 22 - look over + condense drastically
It is strange about this work.   I am reading a [[insertion]] book, The Good Earth, of a [[/insertion]] very real kind of [[strikethrough]] book [[??]] [[/strikethrough]] life, and when too tired to do another thing, I throw myself down + lose myself in it, and now + again in the midst of its reality, the reality of the Indian iumrals [[??]] lifts into the [[??]] consciousness and diffuses with the reality in the book.  And images are clear and for a brief moment pulse and I am lifted up. I read on and [[insertion]] * again flashes ^ [[/insertion]] with an [[insertion]] uncertain ^ [[/insertion]] rhythm, [[strikethrough]] again [[/strikethrough]] an image from the Indian school, [[insertion]] * [[/insertion]] accompanied with a strange spiritual satisfaction. It is "good medicine" as the Navajo would say - and further than that I cannot yet penetrate.  I am conscious of the friendliness of these Indian boys toward me, [[strikethrough]] but whether they [[/strikethrough]] and of a quiet understanding + confidence among us. It can be that wise as they are in their centuries of spiritual and occult thinking + sensing, they (or their designs which are but the symbols of the same) are conferring a benediction upon me. Can it be that a life - giving element is being uncovered here that will freshen the hearts of men of whatever race?  If so, then art [[??]] will be reanimated.  Slowly but surely I feel selfishness and personal desires slipping away, and the common good taking its health place in my life.  [[underlined]] To get [[/underlined]] religion without going to a mourner's bench is not that like the freedom of birds+ animals.   Green but thinks that no people on earth have so drawn their forms from life peculiar with vitality, as have the Indians - from lightning, the rainbow, clouds, rain, sun, mountains, buffalo, eagle, wings, seed.            "the acauthus [[??]] leaf must go' said Green but - why had it remained so long with us who know it not?
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i had difficulty with a couple of words due to difficulty reading the handwriting. noted this with [[??]]