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free associations of men and women trying to live the life of the spirit. There are none today. And for this reason, we are not taking the line of upward evolution. We are slipping back. ^ For Consciousness ^ came about through evolution - and more consciousness will come about through further evolution."

 You see I agree with you, in my own way. But I should not be able to write so fine a story as "A Man's Story".
 Since last year, I have been in " a well" myself. The only  two friends I had - Cournos? and O'Brien -

both went off and married - and I have been alone. My wife and I have a ^ limited dumb understanding of each other, but somehow it isn't enough. I need friends - it is part of my nature to love men as much ^as but in a different way to - women (Because of your story, I feel sure you will understand this). And I have fallen apart from all the ties I once had. Besides, I am making no money by writing. So that is why I am coming to the U.S. in order to get in touch with life again, if possible.

 When I wrote you that you were the eternal adolescent, I meant it for a compliment. I am weary of all the

people who were