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Barracks, St. Gallen (until Oct. 31),
17 October 1911
Dear Professor Freud,
Many thanks for your two letters and all their news. I was interested in the goings-on in Vienna. May we know the names of the dissidents soon? In my view this purge is a blessing.
Pfister—I saw it coming. He could no more have lifted his marriage out of the rut than Archimedes could have moved the world unless a solid point had suddenly materialized in empty space. It so happens that “a bird loaded with corpse poison”1 has been miracled