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You see Margie has become quite respectable. As a consequence it was a mixed company Very respectables, and a sprinkling of free spirits. A chafing restraint. Margie palpably nervous. I missed the old joy of intermingling pure reason, anarchy and damfoolishness that used to make her parties so good.

Will get the Rosenfeld book. Have just finished Huysmann's La Bas (Down There) A hairlifting book on Satanism of the middle ages and present. Have you seen it? Odd -- the things the censors have suppressed are child's play compared to this. Yet the artist subordinates the horrors to his art and maintains a philosophic dignity throughout

Well -- here's for everything this new chapter means to you. Nothing I could think of would give me the thrill of shaking your hand right now -- unless it should be a gift from the high gods of an hermitage of my own. My felicitations to Elizabeth, and the keen anticipation of a meeting some day

With Love George