Dear Nikola,

Thank you for your e-mail. Please feel free to telephone whenever it's convenient. Please keep in mind that I keep my phone next to my computer. I don't carry the phone with me, and my walking is so painful and so slow, that often I can't answer before Verizon calls it quits. In that case I will return your call as soon as I can.

My incessant reading and writing sustains my euphoria. I've been skimming the Nibelungen Saga, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Jakob Böhme ... and Volume 9 of my novel series on which I hope to make much progress in what remains of this year, provided of course that I live. At age 92, the odds of dying within the year are 0.197408

Stay well and content. Best wishes.
EJM