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If the surprise which I shall feel when I learn all your past history should be as pleasurable as that caused by the receipt of your letter today, girl, then I should like to know about your past. I did work today and felt time and tingly-tired and your good letter was a happy climax for a happy day. But do you know what an uncanny feeling you give me when you write about your past in such a sophisti cated way? Especially since you have told me so very much about this same subject by suggestion half-unintended! And do you think that my surprise would be in learning the serious statement from you that you were learning from me and not
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merely reviewing? and then, little Paradox, how could it be best that I don't know? - an entirely new angle was suggested forcibly to me by your mother's voice over the plant. I smiled it into the distance, but your letter revivified it. I wish I had come out to see you and your mother, if only for a moment. But I know the exact mental process that would take plae in your mother - and justly if she and I should talk about anything but uninteresting matters - yes, we did choose a raw day to go home in - or against. Its only good quality was that it made me glad that no little red faced girl was suffering the strip of outrageous fortune with me. About the plot, all that is necessary is a bare skeleton with the essential incidents suggested in relation to the
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climaz, end without elaboration. If you can think of more than one denouement for the plot or more than one possible leading phase in the character of the person whom you make the center of interest, it will be good to do so. Of course, more than one leading phase would almost surely mean more than one solution. - I'm going over to see an entomologist friend about atrus ceales. Goodnight. [???a.]
