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V [centered] of help - and now when I use black - that most noble of colors - I will be able to really use it - not it - me. Tomorrow I will work a half day on another experiment - & a half day on the studio -- going on with it as before -- & it will pull through. I paint as I paint -- it will improve -- & what Schwartz or anyone else thinks is of no account, except as it helps me find my own path. If I get blue over my rotten efforts - it is a damn sight better than thinking I'm swell all the time. And there is one think I've learned -- & going on learning too -- keep on -- & roll up your sleeves -- & smile -- & [scribbled loops] well, I'm not really a Pollyanna -- but I do believe that there is some worth in me somewhere - And it takes pains & perspiration to dig it out & to enlarge it. And I am not afraid. Seems to me that hearts lead one chases -- But I would not wish to have no heart.