Record of a Friendship

(^29) [ 19 36- 1939 ]
drops to suppress the disease, and I may consult the people who cure
eyes by exercises, blinking etc. Only I hate doing exercises of any kind.
I hope to hear from you that your eyes are O.K. by now.

• • •

[With the previous letter, Neill had enclosed a draft of an English

translation of the paper on bions. It is to this that Reich now al­

ludes.]

Oslo, Norway
March 3, 1939
Dear Neill,
I don't believe that they will take the Bion paper, but I am
sending it [back] to you anyway. Maybe you have luck. I corrected the
ms. as well as I could and enclose some pictures. They are very im­
portant. The translation seems all right.
My eyes are better, but I don't dare do any work with those bions
on the microscope. It aches immediately. The radioactivity is quite sure
now. I am trying to get a physicist to measure it out. But what is wrong
with your eyes?
Rasenformig means growing like grass on earth naturally. Zeitraffung
means taking up only one picture in a while, so that the movement
becomes very quick.

Summerhill School
Leiston, Suffolk

My dear Reich,

• ••

March 4, 1939

Once more I have nothing to report but failures. Ethel Mannin

the novelist was arranging for her and me to go to Wells for lunch.

Suddenly I got a letter from her saying she had had a violent quarrel

with him because she had criticised him in a book. So the lunch never

came off.

Then I went to see my friend the editor of the Lancet. He began thus:

"Before you tell me about Reich let me show you a letter I had from