Some of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon

Author:Theodore Sturgeon [Sturgeon, Theodore]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-01-08T06:00:00+00:00

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Here is another of the letters with the letterhead discarded.

Looneybin Lane O-R

Orgonia, Ore. Feb 26

Dear Phil, dammit:

With all I’ve got to do I have been sitting here pulling on my lower lip and wondering what to say to you. I’m going to tell you right at the start that when I first got that bundle of paper from you and determined it wasn’t the Sunday Chronicle complete with the spring fashions supplement, I was mad as hell. And I suppose I still am. And I began by feeling that “George Smith” should be thrown out of that maniac’s motel of yours, and I wound up feeling the same way. But you made me laugh.

Well of course, you stinking psychologist you. Anything you might have said to me I’d’ve spit in your eye for, after all this time. If I thought about you and “George” at all, I thought no news is good news and you’d finished with it. Then you send me his autobiography with no comment at all, just nothing.

So ruefully, it is to laugh. I know what you’re up to. You want me to react, i. e. think. Now you know damn well an administrator doesn’t have time to think any more than he has time to plow through a testament like this. You also know me well enough to knowI’d leaf through it and get hauled in and then go back and start over and hit every word. And be impressed by the effort that went into it, not excluding your pecking it all out on the typewriter. (What’s the matter—haven’t you got enough work to do?) (Seriously, Phil, I know you did it instead of sleeping and cut that out: I need you. You’re going to kill yourself.)

Now about the biography. I am doubtless much more impressed by the pathetic horror of it than a case-hardened character like you. I am also impressed by this kid’s descriptive ability. I don’t know how a fourth-grade English teacher would parse some of his sentences (like his description of the weathered knot of wood in the boat’s side: “...you see things like that sometimes that though they do not move your eye keeps going into and out of and around and back again there are two spirals of hair on a cat’s back that way.”) but I never failed to get exactly what he meant. And aside from the one or two real insights he comes up with, as for example that discussion on sex and the machine-precise, almost delicate distinction he draws between Satisfy and Relieve, I am impressed by the completeness of his story. To this jaundiced eye he has left out nothing of significance; his portrait of himself is filled in to a substantial solid and contains no appreciable holes. What he has left out, like the exact details of his sex techniques with Anna, shouldn’t bother anyone except a grubby clinician like yourself who is beyond the reach of the chivalrous asterisk.

I think there are

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