10/31 Arduous intellectual effort is necessary to him, he writes, "for it is dreary to live in a place where one's whole activity must simmer within itself.... For the rest, everything around me is dead.... Frankfort remains the nest it was--_nidus_, if you will. Good enough for hatching birds; to use another figure, _spelunca_, a wretched hole. God help us out of this misery. |