June 14, 2022
Dear Nikola,
Thank you for your e-mail. I hope that you are not too hot in Arizona.  To know that you are feeling well, makes my days a little brighter. I can imagine that playing music will again become very important to you.

My writing has slowed and I am dissatisfied with what little I have accomplished. In the past, my writing has been cyclic: periods of aridity have been interrupted by floods. Some day it will all come to an end, but I cannot anticipate when that will be.

Meanwhile I have spent effort and though reading physics and some mathematics. I learn to accept my limitations with equanimity.  Not having to face examinations makes all the difference.  But even when my memory is unable to reconstruct details, I feel a deep need to "understand", and interpret what I read as "literature", as fiction which is compelling not only with its revelations about "nature" (natuta naturata), but, more accessible to me, with its revelations about "human nature" (natura naturans), about my own mind and that of the scientific herd.  Where I can't insinuate myself into the mind of Heisenberg or Schrödinger, I explore the nooks and crannies of my own. (Mostly junk).

As always, my very best wishes.
EJM