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(12:32 AM.) I have a few beginning, small but pertinent remarks to make. I will continue them after our next book dictation. They are hints. I am pointing out here a few considerations—not important in themselves, but for what they represent.
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While he worries sometimes about future money, or how he will make out, generally speaking he can handle that, and knows that left alone his creativity will, and is, producing financial as well as other results. He may worry about prices in the grocery store—and he does—but you do think in terms of financial limitations. Your daily remarks constantly speak of financial lack, except when you make a particular attempt to speak differently.
The tax episode threw Ruburt into a quandary—not only because of the situation, but because you, he felt, felt so threatened that there was no joy in his royalty check. You have not, either of you, begun to appreciate your physically apparent financial abundance; and you refuse, to some extent, to take comfort from it, but instead concentrate upon high prices without being really consciously aware of the fact that you are able to meet them.
You have abundance in that area. It is growing and will continue to grow, but it will bring you no more comfort unless you learn to appreciate it. This is important, because of Ruburt’s ideas about writing and work.
The more financially threatened he feels, the less free he feels to be creatively himself, and the more something like a book deadline gains in importance. You make a point, each of you, of concentrating upon your financial lacks, rather than your gains. You are not blind to your gains but you do not emphasize them.
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