A.M.

Letter to Bickie. Not “depressing” this time, but clean crazy.

I ask Yi [I Ching]: “Shall I have my Retirement in May?” And receive [I Ching Hexagram] XIII.

It has occurred to me that I may know “Rich man from The West”, and I therefore ask Yi. And receive that symbol which says “Oracles of The Sun.” This seemed to me at the time so far away form my question I made no note of interpretation.

Wrong.

P.M.

Typed “The Bronze” and Timbuktu prospectus.

5:50

I feel like pulling out the cornerstone, watching the building topple over, and sitting down in the midst of the ruins, the better to become one with it. This takes me back to childhood, when pastime warm days was, to select a fine pile of warm earth, sit in the midst of it and pour the whole heap over head, shoulders and body. Sounds demoralizing enough!