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3. have gone on with these natural simple people right on down to now. Maybe you think too much. Maybe you let a couple of half-baked city intellectuals throw you off. I have always found that those that speak loudest are the least sure. And if ever a person had a fund of material that demands to be treated independently and instinctively, yours does. I work best tight. But you work best relaxed. It's when you strain that you come to grief. It must be that when you let yourself relax all the best things sort of well up out of your memory and get on the paper.

   I am really sorry that you abandoned the mine of material you still must have.  It is a loss.
   About Nelson - I know now why when I read his book I thought he must be my soul-mate or something.  It's those damn prostitutes at the end with their long inner monologues.  They all talk the way I used to think.  Everybody in Algren's book is alone, alone, alone.  Nobody ever really communicates with anybody else.  It took me years to