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Anyway I'm depressed by my own pessimism and I find with surprise and pleasure that the only spot of kindness and moved, smiling inclination that comes spontaneously from me - goes to you.

I'd rather talk than think - Because talking is easier and by nature insincere. Only lately I was able to concentrate a bit/ I'm helped by the work I'm doing and I'm all elated by the old project of doing a tremendous book of drawings that should cover as much of our time and places as necessary or possible, something like - what I think [[crossed out]] it [[/crossed out]] is (because I didn't read it) the cycle La Comedie Humaine of Balzac.  I have been like the violin player on the rock lately, feet well, a little corny but good. 


Facts: Monday I took Tino & Pietro to lunch, gave them shishkebab and ice cream. Mrs. Roder started calling again (I'll answer, she left number with service). Monday night I went to party at Betty (english critic wanted to know artists) saw everybody you expect at such party. Left early (went there late too)- got haircut, read Havellock Ellis, arranged with publisher to have book printed in England - gave up fabric design (no time). Charlie leaves tomorrow. Weather is bad, raining again. Buzzi wrote again today, sad letter (has to work). Movie they made (vietato rubare we saw in Locarno) running here in 6th avenue, no big success. These are things that come to my mind 

EVER, Love, Saul

Transcription Notes:
The Human Comedy (French: La Comédie Humaine) is the title of Honoré de Balzac's multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration (1815-1830) and the July Monarchy (1830–1848). Henry Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 – 8 July 1939) was an English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality.