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The aspects of nature there are important, however. And will be most refreshing. The air itself is clearer and cleaner.

The formality of the position of the house upon its hill provides a kind of structure of its own. The same house on low land would not suffice, you see. It is the entire picture that is important. There are good paintings to be found from the house, in terms of landscapes, and natural walks. You would end up, I imagine, tearing down a wall.

There are points to be considered also in the Levine affair, for our bemused Dr. Levine would cut out all of nature, you think, if he had the chance, and as Ruburt said, sterilize the neighborhood. His response there was excellent for him, as you said. You both do need privacy for your work and because of your natures, but if you try to find a home with no dogs or children within miles, then in another way you are doing what Sam Levine is trying to do, only in your own way. To you, far more acceptable, of course, than his way.

Give us a moment.... The hill house, again, has good aspects because of the location, the view and the proximity of nature. The dining area is better, as it is now. It would require little work.

The hill house does not. It represents a kind of challenge you have not thus far accepted. A kind of living in the present that has frightened you both. As given however it still possesses qualities that do go in with your natures. Foster Street represents an elegant secretive past, and you would both try to hide within it. Ruburt hates to give it up for that reason, but to a lesser degree so do you.

Give us time.... When you live in a house that belongs conspicuously to another age, you are to some extent avoiding the contemporary nature of life. Ruburt may find himself furnishing the place more formally than another, yet the open quality of the air is the kind of air that you do not hide in.

Now: the hill environment has open nature. The trees will tempt him to walk about, and he knows it well. The environment demands exploration. Nature there is sunny.

The sunny nature and the open quality—regardless of what Ruburt thinks now, will help him creatively and physically—but the house represents a decision to face the world, while maintaining certain necessary and quite reasonable conditions. It provides privacy yet openness.

The Ambrose affair represents your ideas about money and the upper classes. The conflict between Easton and Ambrose is primarily of a social nature. Donna and Easton both feel in an inferior position in that regard. They have their backs up. The mores are entirely different. To some extent the conflicting ideas represent some of your own—hence your being in the middle.

For your purposes the house is worth the price. In the market, in Frank’s terms, the house is worth perhaps $38,500, or $39,000. That price will also go up. Though the rooms are smaller there is in a strange way greater manipulability, psychically speaking. A definite change in living patterns will result, and of attitude, that would not happen in the Foster house. This also means that greater adaptability is required, but it will be to the good. The whole difference here is the quality of nature as it surrounds both houses. The one invites you to roam, the other to hide. Both houses have Sumari characteristics, but in different combinations. You both need the sun.

On the house: now Ruburt could quite cleverly see Dr. Sam as he tried to shut nature out, and be at the same time relatively opaque in understanding his feelings toward the Foster Street house—his own feelings.

It is no coincidence that Venice’s (McCullough’s) land borders on Sam’s—for she does not trust nature either. Their lands are adjacent. So the families of consciousness operate at adjacent angles, and each family teaches the other family something.