even if the beginning is small. We should not be impressed by big names.
Our own name is big enough by now. 10,000 is not too big an edition
for Character Analysis, because our press has sold 3000 copies within
one year without any propaganda.
What you wrote about Barakan's work without any resistances on the
part of the patient points to charlatanism pure-and simple. Please help
to exclude Barakan from our circles completely.
Summerhill School
Leiston, Suffolk
My dear Reich,
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October 27, 1947I think I'll have to give up the idea of coming out in spring
to lecture. There is no one on my staff I can safely leave in charge for
two or more months. But Ena, Zoe and I could come out in latish July
and be back to reopen the school in late September. If I could get
enough lecture fees to cover our expenses that's all I'd want. I feel that
I need to see you again, for since seeing you I've felt much stronger
and confident, and more able to face the opposition of all the anti-life
people who are becoming more aggressive. A headmaster of a Grammar
School, in a long article in The Fortnightly, mentions me and suggests
that such men as I should not be allowed to teach children because
children need religion.
I don't know if at that time of the year enough people would want
lectures. We could have longer in Orgonon too. I wonder how the fire in
Maine affected Organon. I think you were well away from the trees
but not possibly from the dry grass. Let me know; I am anxious about it.
Letter from Mrs. Sharaf saying how much the kids enjoyed the
seminar, but they were much upset about my pornography. One of the
ministers suggested we discuss what is por-y at a session. I told a few
stories, saying which I thought por-ic and which not. My point was that
por-y is simply sex repression of filth, but that I could laugh at a joke
when it had wit or a ludicrous situation whether about sex, religion,
schoolmasters, anything. The interesting thing was that the older genera
tion laughed at my witty or ludicrous sex stories while the young one
saw no humour in them at all. Today I do not think hardly any sex story
funny, and find that I am bored by people who tell them.