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[... 34 paragraphs ...]
The trembling will not last—at the most two or three days. It is no copout to keep a chair handy, or whatever, nothing to be afraid of when that is understood. The legs will want then to exercise. He can stand up and hold on to something, and exercise them, even if he has had to have chairs about while walking from place to place. The balance of the body is changing. The eyes will continue to improve. Fear, his and yours, makes him concentrate upon the body’s sensations too much, and that prevents him from the frame of mind necessary for his writing.
[... 23 paragraphs ...]
Luckily, those beliefs allowed the possibility of achievement even if they did also permit experience most dismaying. But watch the center of your focus. We are setting up an alternate framework. Your focus must be upon your abilities, your achievements; the realities—all of them—of the moment. You both have great powers of concentration and energy. I want those directed toward the issues just mentioned. Reinstate the library, together. Only your poor habits and lack of confidence stand in the way. When you worry all day then the library goes out the window, and so does your feeling of creative adventure, in your own creative hours, both of you.
[... 15 paragraphs ...]