Dear Cyndy,

Thank you for your letter. The two months we have
thus far spent in Konnarock have been very pleasant 
and for me, very productive. As I may have written 
to you, on July 21, at 5:30 p.m. we'll meet Klemens 
at the Charlotte NC airport, drive back to Konnarock 
to spend the night, and then the following morning, 
having winterproofed the house in case we can't get 
back, leave for Belmont. It's a relief to have the 
date of the Hearing confirmed. Provided my health 
holds up, the Hearing will turn into a comedy.
Foolishly or otherwise, I anticipate it with pleasure.

As I am writing I receive Mr. Pucci's letter informing
the Board that Mr. Ciamartaro is no longer an employee
of the Town and that in his place the "Assistant 
Plumbing Inspector" presumably Mr. Ramos would attend 
the Hearing. Mr. Butler, the Building Commissioner,
of course, is not a plumber and cannot testify
concerning the plumbing. Meanwhile, I've been reading 
Mr. Ramos' testimony at the last hearing to get some 
ideas on how most effectively to cross examine him. 
My present plan is simply to ask Mr. Gordon and Mr. 
Esposito to identify the specific deficiencies, if any, 
they see on the 35 photos, ask them whether any given 
deficiency requires removal of the entire installation, 
and what effect, if any such an hypothetical deficiency 
would have on the functioning of the system.

Judging from his past testimony, Mr. Ramos will make 
broad non-specific denunciatory statements, without
reference to the Inspection Report or to the Code,
and as at the last Hearing, the Chairman, Mr. Kennedy, 
will deny me the right effectively to cross-examine 
Mr. Ramos concerning the absence of "detailed reasoning."
There will then be another round with the Appeals Court 
which will have to decide whether its prior rulings are 
to be taken seriously.  If I survive, the years ahead 
will be interesting. 

You ask about the novel. I've been working on it, albeit
s[oradically, in conjunction with my correspondence with 
Herr Niels Holger Nielsen, the father of our German-
American lawyer neighbor Alexander Nielsen. We have been 
exchanging long letters several times a week, because 
Herr Nielsen is much interested in "philosophy", - and 
so am I. Herr Nielsen takes my ideas very seriously. 
His "discovery" of me as someone to be taken seriously,
is for me a new and somewhat disconcerting experience.

You ask about Charlotte. Inasmuch as I have a one track
mind which has recently been dwelling on such topics
as "propositions that are self-evident", "the pseudo-
identity of the self", "naive concepts of a universe 
bounded or unbounded in time and space," "knowledge as 
assimilation,""idealization and de-idealization as 
fundamental characteristics of thought," Charlotte has 
unavoidably been drawn into the paths of abstract thought,
which she claims to detest but in which, in consequence
of her very substantial intelligence, she orbits with 
much assurance. Her limitation is her temper; 
periodically she becomes annoyed and angry, protests 
that she can no longer tolerate the ambience of the 
madhouse in which she is living, scurries out the front
door and and slams it behind her.

The next melodramatic episode will be when Judge Adams,
one of her instructors in the advanced sensuality
workshop, distressed by her truancy from work, stops by 
the Linnaean Street house to - , well - to kidnap her, - 
an episode which leads not to Adams' being charged with 
kidnapping, but to Charlotte's being charged with breach 
of contract, truancy, delinquency and resisting arrest, 
a criminal case over which Judge Adams presides with 
great authority and dignity.

Tune in next week to the sequel of this "philosophical"
soap opera which it turns out is more spicey than
anything in Plato's wildest dreams.

Best wishes for the 4th of July to all of you!

Jochen