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(I hadn’t had time to buy Jane’s birthday presents, although we both know what she wants—hot plate for the kitchen, and a summer bed spread. We’ve had a succession of visitors, all but one of them unannounced, and have lost work time as a result. Saturday, for example, I wasn’t able to get out of the house to go food shopping.)
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
That activation has indeed begun now the highly important release of the upper portions of the body. Areas are being reawakened, and circulation greatly increased in certain areas. It is not necessary to trace nerve pathways, and yet the stretching of both legs and muscles reawakens and quickens nerve impulses. All portions of the body are now being stretched.
[... 10 paragraphs ...]
The ideas will grow in any case. Whenever possible then outside of normal considerations, both of you should concentrate upon the creative, intuitive elements of what you are involved in. Forget such things as impressing the authorities so that they somehow will change the world. Do not expect the books to sell like novels, as I have told you. Free yourselves from such considerations, with their implications.
[... 1 paragraph ...]
This may sound simple, and yet all such considerations serve to weigh you both down, and they color your attitudes far more than you realize.
I know you both fairly well. For now, I suggest that you not contact your famous agent (Scott Meredith). You are not being treated like merchandise at Prentice, whatever Prentice’s faults might be, and you would be treated like merchandise by the high-powered agent, who would consider you a fine property, and expect you to act accordingly.
(This rather humorous material from Seth was in reference to a talk Jane and I had, at my instigation, several days ago, when I idly speculated about asking Scott Meredith to personally represent us. I think I got off on that tack because I was concerned about getting money that Prentice had withheld against returns. [That dilemma has since been resolved.] In the meantime, both Jane and I had forgotten all about the Meredith question.)
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