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Dear Sherwood, I have been in [bed] a few days now - with [tonsilitis] and grippe. I am about alright now. It was fine to have your book come. It is a great book. And as you said it is profoundly disturbing. It is powerful. [Is me] there is something very moving about the last part. The book builds up to it and then it hits you real hard. Somehow the whole thing gives me a direct challenge. I have ditched chasing money to hunt the first thing I know. The mysterious meaning and beauty in the appearance of things. I have thrown overboard most everything to go after it. I have a dim feeling that if I could put it down I would be alright inside. But life around me is [poisoned] and it [poisons] me. My sympathy is with the workers but I -