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2 are right in this, because my correspondence has gone on increasing year by year has become far too bulky? deleted:
illegible miscellaneous in its character, consumes too much of my time Therefore I mean to take you advice allow broad acres
of silence to spread between my letters, however much of self denial may be demanded Bookmaking frightens me because it demands
so much artificial- -ness retrograding. Somehow, up here in these fountain skies I feel like a flake of glass through wh light
passes, but wh, conscious of the inexhaustableness of its sun fountain, cares not whether its passing light coins itself into
other forms or goes unchanged - neither charcoated or diamonded, Moreover I find that though I have a few thoughts entangled
in the fibers of my mind I possess no words into wh I can shake them. You tell me that I must be patient 3 reach out
grope in lexicon graneries for the words I want, but if some illegible angel were to touch my lips with literary fire bestowing
every word of Webster I would scarce thank him for the gift, because most of the words of the English language are made of
mud, for muddy purposes, while those invented for containing spiritual matter are doubtful unfixed in Capacity form. as wind-ridden
mist rays These mountain fires that glow in ones blood are free to all, but I cannot find the chemistry that may press them
unimpaired into booksellers bricks True, with that August instrument Eng' language in the manufacture of wh so many brains
have been broken, I can proclaim to you that moonshine is glorious nice, sunshine more glorious nicer, that winds rage, waters
roar, that in terrible times glaciers guttered the mountains with their hard cold snouts