should the so-called little man be spared the trouble of taking his time
and thinking a bit? It won't harm him to think things over.
•••c/o Constance
124 Wigmore Street, London W 1
November 24, 1944
My dear Reich,
Your short letter fearing I was having difficulty certainly was
right. Not easy to say what it has all been about. Much better now that
I announced to the staff that I was to marry the young lady who is my
secretary. I explained the situation; that I don't believe in marriage as
it is today, but that professionally I would be in danger of extinction if
I lived without marriage. During a war all the stiff-stomached people
seem to flourish with their so-called moral and religious self-satisfactions,
so that in the recent parliamentary discussion on the new Education Bill,
most of the time was devoted to religious education which is to be
applied to all schools now. This shows the tendency during a war when
so many lose their loved men and grasp the hopes that a religion, almost
dead in peace time, has to offer. So that I fear that any cheap newspaper
has the power to damage any professional man who is "immoral" in not
believing in marriage.
The situation isn't perfect. The love one, yes, but my wife has to be
more than a success with herself and me ... she has to succeed with
herself, me, and the work, and here she is most capable, but she expects
too high a standard of work, and says so and gets disliked. Her ambition
is to go to New York and have a Reichian analysis as soon as she can
get over.
We hope to return to our own home this summer. I am trying to find
a cottage near the school where I can have my own domestic life (which
I've never had before), and, most vital of all, have my own workshop
from which tools won't be borrowed or stolen.
Someone told me with surprise that your Function book is in
Cambridge University Library.
Am trying to stop smoking, not on moral grounds, no, I find that I
always oversmoke, from morning till late at night, one pipe or cigarette
after the other, up to an ounce daily. Result always a bad throat, cough,
bad tongue, lack of energy. I find I want about two hours less sleep