Record of a Friendship

Switzerland. The law here is that only the publisher or a recognised
bookseller can dispatch books abroad.
I still don't know what to do about distribution. I show the journal
or the book to the ordinary reading man-teacher, doctor, etc. He is
delighted with it, wants to know more about your work. The big man,
the man with a name, doesn't even reply thanking me. The big man in
any line hates to hear of another's good work.
No, I never made the Orgone Accumulator because material is im­
possible to get, especially metals. I can only spend one pound a month
buying wood. Also, I forget about my own health until I break down.
But I wish I could set one up. You know how ignorant I am of science.
In my ignorance I don't understand the cage as you describe it in your
letter, and I don't recollect your ever telling me how to make it. If in a
letter, it must have gone down.
I don't like to hear about your stomach convulsions. You must live
another 40 years, friend. I want to live long enough to see you king of
the new Trobriands, so to speak. This cursed dependence on the body
is so tiresome. I want to work and forget all about the damned body, and
then the body has its revenge and stops the work. If the span of life were
ISO years or so, a man could do something in his life. I feel bitterly
about the body at present. The pleasure went out of the Reflex two
months ago, and I have been sexless since then. I can't decide which is
cause and effect. Or how much an age of 59 affects the world of desire
in general.
Well, I shall wait and write more cheerfully when I get some health
back. I have no news from Stockholm.

Summerhill School
Festiniog, North Wales

My dear Reich,

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September 25, 1942

Your letter came today just as I sat down to write you. I am

touched by your concern and most grateful for your advice re: the

BOX. I am not clear on a few points. (I ) Must I sit in it naked, or does

the Orgone work through clothing? (2) Wood is most difficult to ob­

tain. It is severely rationed. Would a small room lined with tin sheet­

ing do? Behind the sheeting would be brick or wood and plaster. I am