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Now: Ruburt once went door-to-door selling cosmetics. He wrote about his experiences in an unpublished novel.

Anonymously, he visited many homes, and saw the dissatisfactions, the panics, the difficulties that he knew no cosmetics could remedy.

(Here Seth refers to an article by Donald Hebb, a Canadian psychologist, who wrote in Psychology Today for November, 1978 about the decline in his own cognitive abilities. He was busily tracing these out as he aged—he’s now 74—in order to prove out his own theory of aging and senility, about which he’s evidently written extensively. He makes no reference in his writing to the part the negative suggestions he constantly gives himself may have to do with his growing forgetful state—rather amazing, we’d say. The man is regarded as a leading authority, unfortunately; we wonder how many students he’s inculcated with the same negative thinking over the years of his teaching career. The article is on file.)

(9:4l.) Give us a moment.... Ruburt is doing very well. His intent is to walk, and finally to walk normally. He has handled the discomfort well, as the various portions of the body come into use again.

Now (President) Carter is a man of good intent. He is very cleverly trying to appeal to the misdirected good intent of Sadat and Begin, and by doing so to redirect the policies of the world. At the same time he must deal with the chicanery of politics itself, and the face-saving devices known so well to religion and politics both.

Carter was a cardinal in the 13th or 15th centuries—offhand, I am not sure which—then creatively unprincipled, comfortably lecherous, but he knew how to deal with politicians. And now he dons the psychological garb of a prince of the church.

You are lucky, in that his character is not given to fanaticism, but is tempered in that regard. He will have his finger in too many pies, while a fanatic concentrates unduly on one.

I expect more creative developments at all levels on Ruburt’s part. I suggest he does some poetry. Do you have a question?

He was not upset in that regard. He was upset with Prentice on some other matters, and then began to worry that “Unknown” might be too long — might run into difficulties. Tam likes to please, so often he runs into problems if he tries to please too many people at once.