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Vienna, February 19, 1899
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear Wilhelm,
Well, the same thing is happening to you; so I need not feel ashamed. You too start letters on the 11th which you are able to continue only on the 16th, and on the 16th you can write of nothing but the tremendously huge work which is all too hard for the powers of a poor human being, which demands every stirring thought, and which gradually consumes all other faculties and susceptibilities — a sort of neoplastic tissue infiltrating the human