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Vienna, March 26, 1880
Dear Berganza,
What shall I write to you? That I commiserate with you with all my heart; that I already know that my help is not needed, I being a theoretician, especially in matters such as this, when nearly everyone else is a practitioner. Moreover, the event will soon lose its novelty value for you and your fellow dogs, of whom I am one. “It's all
happened before,” as the wise Rabbi Akiba1 used to say. He was a very clever man and went to the heart of things.
With which I remain as I always have been
Your Cipion
dog under examination2
Postcard; in Spanish
Viena 26 to Marzo 1880
¡Querido Berganza!
¿Que tengo que escribirle? Que le tengo compasion de todo mi corazon; que ya sé, que no se necesita mi ayuda, siendo yo theorético y mas en tal cosa, en qué casi toda la gente demasiado pratica es. Tambien tal evenimiento perderá su fuerza de noveldad para V. y sus comperros, siendo yo uno de ellos; “Todo ha sido antes” como usaba decir el sabio Rabbi Don Akiba. Era hombre muy cuerdo y miraba en lo profundo de las cosas.
Con qué estoy como he sido
su Cipion
perro ejaminando