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June 22, 18971
Dear Wilhelm,
Your letter amused me greatly, especially the remarks about my title. At our next congress you shall call me “Herr Professor”; I mean to be a gentleman like other gentlemen. The truth is that we keep pace wonderfully in suffering, but less so in creativity. I have never before even imagined anything like this period of intellectual paralysis. Every line is torture. But now you are flourishing again; I open all the doors of my senses, though I comprehend nothing; but I am looking forward to the next congress. In Aussee, I hope, and in