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2 had not written. It is worth something to me that I sensed what I did in Ulysses, before I had read a word of review.

I have been reading Havelock Ellis's "Dance of Life." That too, has broadened my understanding of good writing I think. Ulysses, Dark Laughter and The Dance of Life have in some sort of released me from subservience to standards and technic, to which you know I have always -- in everything -- tended to my undoing What says holy scripture "The letter killeth -- the spirit quickeneth."

I found it so in the story on which I am plodding along. From a purely poetical, or allegorical concept. I found myself dropping -- (my old trouble) -- into descriptive or photographic stuff, which as you would say a hundred men in American could do better. I was up against a stone wall -- until I saw the light again.

There is of course much talk about Dark Laughter here I suppose you have seen the reviews. Some growling over Harry Hansen's stepping out of his province as a reviewer to allude to personal and