I don't think I'll apply for a visa for 1952. I'd only get another rebuff.
Zoe will be 5 next month. Our headache is a girl of 6, "trained" to
be clean at nine months, whom Zoe follows all day. She tells Z. that
witches are in her toy cupboard and keeps talking with guilty giggles
about shit and piss. We feel like telling the parents to take their trained
brat away, but can't face the row that would follow our "sacrificing"
their brat for our own. Get me a visa and an island out in the lake at
Rangeley ... and then my worry would be Zoe falling into the lake. In
other platitudinous words ... there is always a bloody snag somewhere.
Teaching maths all morning to save money on a math man's salary.
I do feel so impatient to read about the atom experience. Seeing that
the official atom men go about in thick lead or asbestos suits, I keep
wondering how the hell you dared try the experiment.
Love and blessings, friend.
Summerhill School
Leiston, Suffolk
My dear Reich,
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November 5, 1951ORANUR. * Just arrived. Sat down to read it at once and
read it to the end. You have told the story so clearly and so modestly
with hardly a sign of impatience gegen [against] the little men and the
haters. In the big Oranur job you are neither the big nor the little man;
you are the selfless observer, humble, astonished, fearful. The Whole
report just shines with sincerity. And it sounds true.
But the report ended by making me afraid. Your claim that OR
gingered up by a little NR should be a great curative factor in the hands
of physicians ... that is what scares me. I know you are completely pro
prophylaxis yourself, and no doubt see the same danger that obsesses
me. I can see a hundred thousand doctors using ORjNR Boxes all over
the world without seeing the fundamental necessity of self-regulation.
In short, the danger of your work being taken up and castrated by the
mechanistic medical science is urgent and fearsome.
I was disappointed not to find at the end that the State Dept. had
* The Oranur Experiment.