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Conger Reynolds correspondence, February 1918
1918-02-17 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 6
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Kaiser's fault. Down deep - beneath the skin - I have capacity to get beyond those things. Indeed, I do disregard them most of the time now. But what I do while I am disregarding them I can't tell you about - that's war. And war doesn't give me much opportunity to follow the decent impulses I have to read and study and think beautiful, detached thoughts. Does it? Yes, it does too, in one way. It lets me think many wonderful thoughts about you and about the future. But so much of that is incoherent. Some of it is feeling - so deep that I can't put it into words. Some of it is planning - planning of things that there is no use going into until we have some substantial basis on which to build. I think a great deal about the immediate future, but I
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Kaiser's fault. Down deep - beneath the skin - I have capacity to get beyond those things. Indeed, I do disregard them most of the time now. But what I do while I am disregarding them I can't tell you about - that's war. And war doesn't give me much opportunity to follow the decent impulses I have to read and study and think beautiful, detached thoughts. Does it? Yes, it does too, in one way. It lets me think many wonderful thoughts about you and about the future. But so much of that is incoherent. Some of it is feeling - so deep that I can't put it into words. Some of it is planning - planning of things that there is no use going into until we have some substantial basis on which to build. I think a great deal about the immediate future, but I
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