Dear Marion,

Thank you for your thoughtful comments about memory. It would
be foolish of me to postulate disagreement between us where
in fact no disagreement exists. My only comment is to point
out that memory is qualitatively distinct and different from
language. The statement and the intuition may approximate
each other, but they can never coincide.

Jeane telephoned two days ago to advise me that the Konnarock
driveway was impassable. Yesterday she telephoned that she thought
we could get through, and that if my car did slide into the hedge,
Buck Sheets' truck was powerful enough to pull it back onto the
road. I've had trouble making up my mind what I should - or want
to do about ferrying Margrit's books from Detroit to Konnarock.
I'm still not sure, but at present I'm inclined to stay here,
at least until March 10, in the expectation that by then, Justice
Kafker will have issued his opinion - and his order - and I will
have had a chance to file my appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court
if that were necessary. As a matter of fact, it's reasonable to
consider postponing the travedling until April, when the redbud
will be in bloom. In any event, we're not leaving tomorrow.

Friday evening a had my longest telephone conversation in memory, -
it lasted two and a half hours, - with Georgette Fleischer, the
daughter of Isidore Fleischer, the hippie mathematician with whom
Margrit was deeply involved. I heard tales such as made me think
that the Brothers Karamazov should have been illustrated by Norman
Rockwell. I had nothing to say, I could only listen. The complexity 
of Margrit's social and financial relationships to her protegees and 
friends which is beginning to become evident, would be unmanageable 
except for the circumstance that the only probate assets I've been 
able to uncover are the five hundred or so dollars in the Scotiabank,
which refuses to divulge any information about the account until
Margrit's will has been probated, and I refuse to probate the will
(which I won't get until July, if then,) until I know whether
there's enough money in the account to make probate worth the
trouble.

I want to get started on Margrit's income tax. Perhaps I'll be
more inspired in a day or two.

Jochen