Dear Bob
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ound the f. contracts and here they are Can you suggest aname for this book^ I am not intoxicated w. mine, on the other handI agree w you that SeL Essays is no good. [There seemed in the endto be no better title than John’s original ] Very pleased w our tel. talk Kate glad abt god-fathering. TodayIS the Feast of St Isidore the Farmer [who converted] a consul & hishousehold & a senator & Ivs household of 68! There were Xtians inthose days Let me commend to you my fav. recent text. Luke, 13, 8.Present plan. 1) vol. essays/ stories— Spr ’72 2) Delusions, 3) (the novel)— ’73? 4) Shakespeare'* s Reality-^'* 5) The Blue Book of Poetry (ed.) 6^ ) lam also doing a Life of Christ for Martha [his daughter J :illustrated— e.g. Titian’s great‘Scourging’ in the Pinakothek. I enclose the syllabus of one of the present seminars that is driving mehard. [It listed readings from the New Testament, The Tempest,Whitman, Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents, The Meaning ofDeath edited by Herman Feifel, The World of the Child edited byToby Talbot, and Tolstoy’s Master and Man. At the end- “Test:Group-suicide, 3.00 p.m., last Tues of Spr. quarter.”] Will you have Lady Pat [my editorial assistant, Pat Strachan]send me some of my own immortal works^ [A list followed.] Thatshould last me till kingdom come . , ,
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