Dear Marion,

Thank you very much for your letter. It's good that your cough
is getting better. Please keep me informed.

Thank you also about your sympathetic comments about my 
awkward efforts at self-promotion. Probably the most successful
and satisfactory blogs are those, like the ones of die Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung which receive and prublish readers' comments.
Such blog sites require considerable effort, because in addition
to the composition of originals at relatively frequent intervals,
the reader's responses, before being published, must be scanned
and censored for undue vulgarity or obscenity, defamation and
other improper postings.  I don't know whether I would be up to
the challenge, but I will certainly keep your suggestion in mind.

Meanwhile I intend to mimic the cuckoo, who, if I'm correctly
informed, deposits her eggs into the nests of other birds. The
FAZ Stuetzen der Gesellschaft blog gives me the opportunity
to deposit my compositions so to speak, in its very elegant nest
and provides me with a pre-assembled readership. What could be
more favorable?  I'll keep you informed.

As I wrote to you previously, I was much dissatisfied with 
Chapter 51 because of the unstructured mass of semi-digested
"philosophy", which I subsequently excised from
http://home.earthlink.net/~jochenmeyer/freunde/f051.html
and transferred to Chapter 52
http://home.earthlink.net/~jochenmeyer/freunde/f052.html
I send you these URL's for reference only, not as recommended
reading. Chapter 51 is only half finished, and Chapter 52
is still partially skeletal and needs extensive editorial
work. I'm not being coy or cute when I tell you about my
dissatisfaction with my writing. I haven't yet made a 
beginning of the English version.

Meanwhile the hearing date, April 5, is approaching, and
on Thursday, March 1, I plan to file a memorandum that I
drafted some weeks ago:
http://home.earthlink.net/~ej1meyer/diary12/memo.txt
I anticipate Judge Macdonald's reaction with some curiosity.
Possibly, I'm very foolish.

I very much hope your health continues to improve. You have
my very best wishes. Good night.
Jochen