Bye

PRK writes to apologize for having dropped the ball, as he says, that is -- not corresponding; too busy, he says. Certainly he is too busy to keep up with the level of correspondence I have dictated -- I have given him too much to chew.

But if he is too busy for that type of correspondence, then, surely, I am too busy for his. I am not interested in jokes and weather and family doings; my life is too short for it.

For me, it's intellectual partnership or it is nothing. And since generally speaking, of course, it is never any sort of intellectual partnership, it is -- generally -- nothing.