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Vienna, December 15, 1914
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear friend,
New proof of the smallness of the world. One of my sparse patients was in your dear Pápa a few days before your letter and revealed to me the times of departure, but thought it was impossible to return on the same day. My visit to you has now been called into question by the forceful reappearance of my chronic intestinal ailments. Already for the third year the Karlsbad effect has now persisted for four months.
In exchange for that the work is again going well. I am living, as my brother says, in my private trench; I speculate and write, and after hard battles have got safely through the first line of riddles and difficulties. Anxiety, hysteria, and paranoia have capitulated.1 We shall now see how