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Vienna, October 9, 1899
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear Wilhelm,
Why should I avoid an occasion for a new letter? You do not have to reply immediately. So, I misunderstood you. But now the chance
of our coming out together is even less. For your book on the duration of life will long have been banned by the time the first lines of hysteria are written down, because the latter will keep us waiting a long time and it is possible that other things will come first.
You should not regret that this gave you the opportunity to speak of your work once again. I now know better than ever where you are stopping. At the next congress we shall not talk about dreams at all but once more discuss biological periods. Where and when will it be? Do you have any ideas? At Easter again? I am more distant than ever from Rome and Karlsbad.
Can you imagine that I have been impelled by obscure inner forces to read psychological writings, and I feel more at home with them than before. Recently I had the satisfaction of finding part of my hypothetical pleasure-unpleasure theory in an English writer, Marshall.1 Other authors I stumble on are totally unfathomable to me, however. My mood, too, is still holding up. Putting it all in the dream book must have done me good. A mild migraine — ill humor occurred on October 6. In reply to your remarks concerning the acceleration of my practice, I should like to point out that there also exist local trains, secondary lines, as in the Fliegende Blätter. They are supposed to be especially common in Krähwinkel and its surroundings. Things are as follows. Even if in November, for instance, I were to be fully occupied, my income this year, with the lean period from May 1 to the end of October (six months) is insufficient to cover our expenses. I must look around for something else, and I have now taken a step in a definite direction. During the summer I would like to become associated with a hydropathic establishment and look for rooms near it. One place is going to ope