To be short: I am an embarrassing fellow. I might not tum out to be
the Honorary Fellow to some after all.
Imagine a fiery horse racing over meadows enjoying a sunny morn
ing in the spring. It jumps over high bushes and broad brooks. It over
comes seemingly unsurmountable obstacles. But behind a small bush
far in the comer of the field, well hidden and protected, a small stick
of 20 inches brings the horse to fall. It breaks its neck.
That's the course of life. Imagine now the honorary colleague of
Einstein and Eisenhower breaking his neck in such a manner! To fall
over a small, ambitious judge of a small court who does not know what
a library is used for.
Honored and esteemed in the highest terms in many circles, the
danger of a new mess-up of things, emigration, homelessness, is on the
horizon again because the word communism is associated with emotions
which cannot be handled medically in a court. To explain to the average
mind the difference between the intended true democracy of Lenin and
the sham democracy brought about by the irrationality of the masses is,
I think, quite beyond present possibilities.
Maybe that my life, spent hitherto in about 10 changes of domicile,
makes me look at things in this manner. It is not the troubles of life but
the irrationality of procedures which I cannot overcome and which
takes my guts.
Summerhill School
Leiston, Suffolk
My dear Reich,
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January 26, 1946Yours yesterday. I had often wondered what was happening
about your naturalisation, and feared difficulties, but kept saying to my
self: "When the world acknowledges the Orgone, R. will be safe in any
and every country as a famous discoverer." I have become impatient
waiting for your public success, and I confess that sometimes Mr Doubt
would whisper in my ear: "Perhaps Reich has got hold of the wrong
end of the stick with his new physics." But the doubt never lasted more
than a moment or two.
What puzzles me is how the learned men of U.S.A. come to reward
you with their gifts of membership of exclusive societies? It means you
are known by the few who have no political influence. I think of my own