Dear Marion,
The letter s ready tend to you today. Yesterday I received
from Mr. Pucci the Inspector's Condemnation Report, which has
distracted me ever since. I was up last night, or rather
this morning until 4 a.m., then slept four hours and continued
thinking, planning, writing. Literature is my panacea; when I
write, my troubles vanish. For the next few days, I must
concentrate on making life interetsing for Mr. Pucci and Mr.
Ciamataro; hence my letters to you may become transiently sparse.
Please forgive me.  I will send you a copy of the death sentence
for my plumbing; it's probably not worth reading.
Jochen

Dear Marion,

This is the reply to your letter "Excavating Faultlines."
I agree with your analyses and descriptions. While originally
I intended the concept "faultline" to point to an irreconcilable
contradiction between the individual and his society, your
extrapolation of the term to discontinuities in the relationships
between individuals seems appropriate. One should, I think, try
to distinguish situations
a) where the discontinuity arises because one party assumes an
official role, i.e. "betraying" e.g. Julian Assange to the police
because "the law" so requires, - instead of standing squat in front
of the closet door behind which he is hiding, from other situations
b) where the discontinuity reflects a conflict between two individuals
"who just don't get along." Admittedly, the two situations are often
confounded, and it's sometimes unclear, whether the "betrayal" is the
consequence of spite or officiousness.

These considerations finally make it possible for me to articulate
a further "insight", namely that the fascination of both the historian
and the casual observer with Nazi Germany reflects the circumstance
that far from being a social and political aberration, Nazi Germany
with all its brutality and destructiveness epitomizes if not _the_
essence, then at least _one_ essence of all society and of all
government. Such, as I may have mentioned before, I consider the
import of the Nantucket litigation, an experiment to demonstrate
that most officials, and most judges are Nazis under ACLU disguise. 
I know those are fighting words, - but sometimes an extravagant
statement is required to make a point.  I will go further and argue
that the memory of Nazi Germany has become a distraction if not
an excuse or even a justification for the society of Orwellian
totalitarianism which we are busy constructing for ourselves.

I look forward with much pleasure to July 27.
Jochen