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as soon as you get your degrees. But perhaps you intend going there to do your teaching or preaching? Unless you've changed since you left Topeka, I hope it won't be preaching. If you dislike it as much as I think you did, do you think you ought to go into it? For myself, I'm tied down for a year. Then, if it is at all possible, I want to go on for some graduate work- Chicago; but then, anything is possible. It may be some little high school out in the sticks it may be Paris and Rome- it may be I shall find the courage to drink some of Jane's acid. Dreams! "On dit que l'amour a une âcre [l}aveur"- en pent être est-ce que la vie a une âcre s[h]veur, aussi. One of the characters in The Heart of Darkness says: "Droll thing life is- that mysterious arrange-ment of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself - that comes too late a crop of unextinguishable regrets." Vielleicht er hast recht! I supposed it was always cool in Minnesota. It's delightfully cool here today - I'm wearing my sweater. Fred [written in margin] I like the way you enthusiastically ignored the only important thing in my last letter!