acter. For several days the people next door have had their radio going continuously, and have placed it on their sun-porch, and opened all the windows, and in addition, turned it as loud as possible. It would be impossible for decent civilized people to do such a thing; and indeed I would go further - such people could never see “The kingdom of heaven,” at least not as easily as those who wallow in the orthodox sins.
M.A.’s birthday- and a birthday supper.
                                                                     May 27, 1938-
     Today, the water looks right, and homogenous with the rest of the picture.
     Melville, in speaking of the discarded carcase of the whale: “Espied by some timid man-of-war in blundering discovery - vessel from afar, when the distance obscuring the swarming fowls, nevertheless still shows the white mass floating in the sun, and the white spray heaving high against it; straightway the whale’s unharming corpse, with trembling fingers is set down in the log - shoals, rocks, and breakers hereabouts: beware! And for years afterwards, perhaps, ships shun the place; leaping over it as silly sheep leap over a vacuum, because their leader originally leaped there when a stick was held. There’s our law of precedents: there’s your utility of traditions: there’s the story of your obstinate survival of old beliefs never bottomed on the earth, and now not even hovering in the air! There’s ortho-