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of them and so convincingly to get it down on paper. Yes- this is a compliment to you, I'll have to admit. But just to prove that it isn't empty, kow-towing flattery, here is a touch of something from the other direction: I have not read "Sack Laughter". I am afraid to. From somewhere I've picked up the fear that in this book you have cut loose with some of the (to me) foolish Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, "Little Review", "This Quarter" stuff (I don't know what to call it). I am tolerant, growing more and more so, of the "Modern" angle; am buying modern prints and drawings and one or two little paintings. I love your "The Modern Writer"- also "modern" writing such as yours and Dreisers normal things. But this other stuff- I hope I'm wrong and