I find that
every
regular
guy
must have
a
girl.
I would like
so
much to have
you
with
me, even
if
you
have
a
"funny figure,"
as
you
have written
me
twice
already.
Why
don't
you
make
a
drawing
of it for
me,
a
really
beautiful
one!
It will make
me
very
happy
if
you
make
me
a
little
pillow.
But then
you
also
must
make the soul [inner slip
cover?]
for it
(for
the sake of the
pillow),
because
I
haven't
the slightest idea where those of mine reside. You
know the
ghastly
disorder that
reigns
among my
worldly
goods
&
it
is
really lucky
that I don't have much.
My
new
eating arrangement
at the
inn suits
me
quite well,
in
any
case
it is
an enormous
improvement,
so
that
my
moving to Bern, with
my
pupil,
I
mean,
does
not
seem
desirable
any
longer.
But the people with whom
I
am
eating
here
seem
to
me
too
stupid and
commonplace.
So
I
am
sitting
at
the meals like
a
nutcracker
&
am
playing
with
knife
and fork between
courses,
while
looking
out of the window. The fellows must think that I have
never
laughed
in
my
whole
life;
but,
then, they
have
never
seen me
with
my
Doxerl.
I
am
now
working
very
eagerly
on an
electrodynamics of moving
bodies, which
promises
to
become
a
capital
paper.
I
wrote to
you
that
I
doubted the correctness
of the
ideas about relative motion. But
my
doubts
were
based
solely
on a
simple
mathematical
error.
Now I
believe in it
more
than
ever.
Since that bore Kleiner hasn't answered
yet, I
am
going
to drop in
on
him
[also:
to take him to task;
untranslatable pun]
on
Thursday. I want to induce him
at
all
costs to
let
me
work
during
the Christmas vacation. I'll
see
whether I'll
succeed in that. To think of all the obstacles that these old
philistines
put
in the
way
of
a
person
who is
not
of their ilk, it's
really
ghastly!
This sort
instinctively
considers
every
intelligent
young person
as a
danger
to
his frail
dignity,
this is how it
seems
to
me
by
now.
But if he has the
gall
to
reject
my
doctoral
thesis,
then
I'll
publish
his
rejection
in cold
print together
with the thesis
&
he
will have made
a
fool of himself. But if he accepts
it,
then we'll
see
what
a
position
the fine Mr. Drude will take...
a
fine bunch, all
of them. If
Diogenes
were
to live
today,
he would look with his
lantern for
an
honest
person
in vain.
I'll
soon
mail
a
small parcel for
you
and
your
sister, but
nothing
to eat, it's
all
reading
stuff. Just don't
you
believe
now
that
a
lot is
coming,
it's
not
much but it's from the heart. But
you
must
rejoice
in it and think: "If he had
more,
he would send
me
more,
my
sweetheart." This is how
you
must
think,
right?!
Give
my
kind regards
to
your
old lady
&
tell her also that I
am
looking
forward
to
the thrashing she will bestow
upon
me one
of these
days.
Hearty
kisses and
hugs
from
your
Johonzel
I'll send
you
the
money
the moment
you
want
it. It
seems so
funny
when
it
comes
from
me.
What do
you
think?
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