Dear Marion,

Thank you for your letters, and for the pictures of the
ice sculptures. Most of the past six days since my trip
to Dartmouth, I've spent working on my novel. Off and on
I've been midly depressed, a state which not only slows
the composition but makes me even more uncertain about
the quality of what I've been doing. I've been adding to
the German prototype of Chapter 50, which has swelled
to about 15 pages. Will now write an English version.
I enjoy writing in English very much. It's such a rich and 
versatile language, even if it is often at a loss for words
that would do justice to Teutonic mysticism. Sometimes,
when I stop to reflect, I'm appalled at the insouciance of
my composition. That's one of the benefits of not writing
for publication,  or, for that matter, not even for the
approval of the occasional family member. In addition,
there's the fecklessness with which I inject impermissible
theory into my narratives. Shouldn't such intellectual
licentiousness be punished as being even more of a threat
to public morality than child pornography?

I should mention that I have shut off the lap top computer
which I had programmed as an accessory Internet server,
holding the lengthy pdf files that will not fit onto 
the sixty megabytes which is all that my Internet service
provider allows (without additional charges). I've at
least temporarily given up on this project for two reasons:
1) the upload speed (35 Kbytes/sec) is so slow that a one
megabyte file can take more than 30 seconds to upload, and
2) my website has so few "visitors", that it seemed humorless
to keep even a lap-top running continuously to maintain
an unsued website. If you should want such documents as 
Klemens' undergraduate thesis, let me know, and I'll attach
it to an e-mail. The text files of my novels, etc. remain
on-line as before.

If you're interested, some or all of these six URL's might
entertain you.
http://home.earthlink.net/~ej1meyer/diary12/d120131.00
http://home.earthlink.net/~ej1meyer/diary12/d120131.02
http://home.earthlink.net/~ej1meyer/diary12/d120202.00
http://home.earthlink.net/~ej1meyer/diary12/d120203.00
http://home.earthlink.net/~ej1meyer/diary12/memo.txt
http://home.earthlink.net/~jochenmeyer/freunde/f050.html

Tonight I seem to be afflicted with a one-track mind,
which is set to getting back to chapter 50. For now,
therefore, I'll stop and wish you good night.
Jochen