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something difficult, but which one considers right. Yet I do not have this feeling,
but rather the opposite, of having acted unnaturally and ungratefully toward fate.
Have a look at this entire matter like an observer just descended from Mars, and
tell me again your conclusion […]
P. S. Today is the begging-meeting. I am quite curious how it will go. I like slov-
enly Vienna again very much; it is like a balm for a Berliner—whether for long or
even forever? Probably not, since after all we are condemned to only experience
the “different” intensely.
325. To Elsa Einstein
Innsbruck, 27 September 1924
Dear Else,
Everything went well in Vienna; the result was
favorable.[1]
Nice city, from
which I got nothing, though, apart from—the food. It was very pretty here, but the
League of Nations affairs are rotten, even P. was
mulish.[2]
Suum
cuique[3]
—I can’t
help. Today I’m traveling to Zurich. It was very comfortable at the
Meyers’.[4]
In
Zurich, I will properly fulfill my duties.
Best regards to you all, from your
Albert.
326. To Elsa Einstein
[Zurich,] Monday [29 September 1924]
My Dears,
I’m just on my way, in a new muslin collar, to see
Nitti,[1]
who is a quite inter-
esting man. Yesterday I spent the whole day with the
boys[2]
and played music with
them. The day after tomorrow it’s onwards to
Lucerne.[3]
This evening I’m visiting
the
Karrs.[4]
I traveled with
Weyl[5]
from Innsbruck to Zurich. On the 5th I’m going
directly to Uncle
Caesar[6]
and then to Holland. I’m staying at the Augustinerhof
because my ex is applying the
reins.[7]
She puts on her best face and cooked mac-
aroni, even very well. Yesterday I went to see Pygmalion with
Tete.[8]
It was
coarsely acted but that piece is indestructible. I also got nicotine-free tobacco here;
like straw.
Best regards from your
Albert.