09-07-93 21:25
.sp
I should ahve mentioned in our telephone conversation
which just ended, that I would put a letter into you directory;
but then it is perhaps just as well that I didn't,
because your voice did not sound as if you would be receptive
to anything just now, and I don't want to impose on you or intrude.
.sp
I think that anything that I say in the context of your depression
will be Polonius-like exhortation, unavoidably so, because 
rhetoric, no matter how eloquent or how well meant,
lacks all direct access to what you are now experiencing.
I do not want to give you advice, and I certainly don't want to
tell you what to do, and I have only one request, and that is,
that you should try to distance yourself
emotionally and intellectually
from your present professional work,
and consider the many choices that are open to you,
a spectrum that ranges from continuing your present work,
perhaps less intesively and less passionately,
going into private practice,
spending some of your time,
by no means all of it,
in a business venture,
if you like, together with me,
or simply giving yourself a few months or a few years
to think and to read and to write,
perhaps to build a house somewhere.
As I have said to you so often,
that is the only legitimate application
of the assets which we have saved
so assiduously all these years.
.sp
I hope you feel better soon.