February 11, 2022
Dear Nikola,

It's been a week since we were in touch. I think of you often, and I hope that you are well. Admittedly, my own situation leaves something to be desired. I'm acutely and chronically aware of how much of my past life was absorbed in activities, hiking or climbing mountains or building houses and maintaining them, or litigating in the courts, all of them activities none of which is possible anymore. All I can do is to write and to keep on writing to the point of pointlessness. When I reach the point of pointlessness, I will have invented a new mathematics and have turned into a mathematician of sorts.

I hope and wish that you are well and that you continue to be well. Telephone and/or write when and if such telephoning or writing is conducive to your welfare. Please give my regards to your parents.
EJM