Wed Apr 13 09:22:40 EDT 2011

Dear Marion,

Your suggestion "not to go overboard on the emails too often",
may be a good one. My tentative response is to schedule mailings
for Fridays and Tuesdays. It's simple enough to accumulate
what I have on my mind for three or four days before sending
it off. Such a delay won't interfere with my writing "in real
time" - was mir auf den Naegeln brennt, - presumptuously 
appropriating Goethe's comments on his own writing. The delay
should also serve to mitigate the profusion of typographical
errors which I notice only when the mail has been sent and it's
too late.  My concluding thought about "Nico" is to respect the
book as an ultimately very private confession of Micha's, about
which intrusive comments would be insensitive and rude.

The historian Crane Brinton attributes the miscarriage of the
French Revolution in part to the divergence of ideology and
interest on the part of its sponsors.  An analogous divergence
seems to me characteristic also of contemporary political activity,
especially on the right, a circumstance which, if Brinton is
correct, bodes ill for our future.