Record of a Friendship

(Ben Green) #1

but Zoe won't mitmachen [join in]. she is too energetic to sit still
for long. Ena and I both feel the result of the sittings, and we find we
sleep more deeply than before, maybe also due to the Accu being in our
bedroom. By the way, the Bulletin says keep the room well ventilated,
but if O[rgone] is everywhere can a draught of air drive it from a room?
I have so many questions I want to ask you. About disease for one. I've
never discovered in orthodox medicine any philosophy of disease. Has
the disease a function? Is it an attempt at self-cure? I can see your
cancer idea and feel that it is right, but why does Jones take [get]
cancer while Brown takes [gets] diabetes? I am not asking you to answer
al l this, but I warn you that I'll bore you with questions when we meet.
Meanwhile my ignorance troubles me about the Akku. It gives health
but what gives unheaIth?
I long to see the Observatory but with the anxious thought: "If I
can't grasp orgone physics in the lab how the hell can I have a hope
when Reich takes it to the stars?"
The latest Bulletin is grand. Your own article was understandable
even by me.
Good that Pete likes his school, but don't ask my advice about staying
all the year in 0., for I have none to give.


P.S. Your letter to Haire [protesting the bad review] is almost certainly
wrong about the man being a communist. Few doctors here are, and I
am pretty certain. that none of them ever heard of your work.


Orgonon
Rangeley, Maine


My dear Neill:


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November 4, 1949

I have yours of Oct. 28 ; you are quite right saying that flies
annoy a cow but do not hamper her milk supply. But any normal cow
will try to get rid of the annoying fly by wagging her tail. This seems
quite natural. I have never answered any pestilent attack, not even
during the long-drawn-out Norwegian campaign. However, I do not
intend to keep our hardworking people from protesting the action of
rats.
Would you be kind enough to let us know the exact title of your
lecture at the 1950 conference. The educational problem will be quite
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