my
whereabouts,
tell them
I
am
in Germany. What
nice books
you sent
me! The Visit in Detention is marvelous.
Did I
laugh!
I've also
read
the
one
by Forel,
when I finish
it,
I'll write to
you
about it.
Have
you
already read
the
one
by
Planck? It
seems
to be
interesting.
But
now,
I kiss and
hug
you
frightfully.
Your
Dock
124.
FROM
MILEVA MARIC
[Stein
am
Rhein] Wednesday [13 November 1901]
My
dear,
wicked little sweetheart!
So
now
again
you
are
not coming tomorrow! And
you
don't
even say:
I
am
coming
on
Sunday instead! But
you'll
surprise
me
then for
sure,
won't you?
Let
me
tell
you,
if
you
are
not
coming
at
all,
then I'll
run
away
all of
a
sudden!
If
you
knew
how homesick I
am,
you
would
surely
come.
But
you
really don't have
any money
left? Very nice! the
man
earns
150
fr.,
has bed and board, and doesn't have
a
centime
at
the
end of the month! What would
anybody
say
about that! But this won't
serve as an excuse
for
Sunday,
will
it,
and if
you
don't
get
any money
by
then,
I'll send
you some.
Is
your
cousin still staying with you? Has he found his ticket?
Did he
come
especially
to visit
you,
otherwise
one
doesn't
travel via
Schaffhausen,
and has such
a
mishap.
You
know,
there
was a
fair in Schaffhausen yesterday, but
unfortunately
I
heard about it
too
late, otherwise
I
would have
gone
there and
bought something
nice for
you,
and would have
looked
up
your
tower and, if possible,
my
dear sweetheart. If
you
knew how I would
like to
see
him again! I think of him all day long, and in the
evening
all the
more;
and then he tells
me
all sorts of nice
things,
and then I think of him
even more.
I
am very
curious what Kleiner will
say
about the two
papers.
He'd better
pull
himself
together
and
say
something
reasonable. It
would make
me
very
happy if
you
could
soon
do the other
one as
well.
I'll write
to
Helene. She's
surely got
her
"tiny
one"
by
now.
I
haven't written her for
a
long time because
I
couldn't
bring
myself
to
do
so
in those terrible times. I
once
wrote her
a
long letter and
poured
out all
my
woes;
but then I tore it
up,
and
now
I
am
glad
that
I did
so.
I don't think
we
should
say
anything about Lieserl yet; but
you too
should write her
a
few words
now
and
then,
we
must
now
treat
her
very
nicely, she'll have to
help
us
in
something important,
after
all, but mainly because she is
so
nice and kind and because it will
give
her such
pleasure. Agreed,
sweetheart.
-
I
finished
reading
the
book by Forel. Stadler said that
hypnosis
is
an
immoral thing, and
when
I
read the book
I
had exactly the
same,
disgusted feeling.
Suggestion plays
an
important role everywhere, and I think that
a
physician
is
even
obliged
to
apply
it,
up
to
a
certain
point.
But
such
a
violent
surprise
attack
upon
human consciousness!
In
my
opinion, Forel differs from
a
quack only
in
that he faces his patient
with
more
self-confidence, read
impertinence,
because of his
more
extensive knowledge.
But
people
are
such
a
stupid bunch. The
hypnotic sleep
I
cannot understand,
perhaps
it
cannot
be understood at
all, if it exists at all! I think that this is also suggestion,
or,
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