Volume II Part 35 (2/2)
DEAR McDONALD,--We ran over so upon the track during a decorous period We did not see Tokyo till after eleven considerably But the waiting was not unpleasant Frogs sang as if nothing had happened, and the breeze froh the cars;--and I meditated about the sorrows and the joys of life by turns, and s the existence of yourself and Dr
Hall I was not unfortunate enough to see what had been killed,--or the consequences to friends and acquaintances; and feeling there was no h not without a prayer to the Gods to pardon ether I felt extrelorious,--especially subsequent to the re several myriads of lost souls, fro home, I used sorateful surprise (I aift--that would be no use) After having used it, for the first tiation without fear, and found--
What do you think?
Guess!
Well, I found that--_the wrong one had been pulled_,--No 3 instead of No 2
I don't say that No 3 didn't deserve its fate But it had never been openly aggressive It had struggled to perforeous circu No 2 had been, on the contrary, Mt Vesuvius, the last great Javanese earthquake, the tidal wave of '96, and the seventh chamber of the Inferno, all in mathematical combination It--Mt Vesuvius, etc--is still with h to-day astonished into quiescence, is far fro extinct The medicine keeps it still for the time You will see that I have been destined to experience strange adventures
Hope I ain _soon_,--4th, if possible Love to you and all kind wishes to everybody
LAFCADIO
TO MITChell McDONALD
TOKYO, July, 1898
DEAR McDONALD,--Ithe raw proofs, and the _Revue des Deux Mondes_ I fear you will find the former rather faulty in their present unfinished state But if you lorious critic
I don't kno to tell you about the sense of all the pleasant episodes of yesterday, coupled with the feeling that I must have see to you and friend Ahty--I suppose; but I orried a little However, my sky is only clouded forserious
We had adventures at shi+ rather close to e; and I pushed in between her and hiirdle, trying to get her watch Then I had a hand poked in ht side-pocket, and another alot nothing from either of us What interested me was the style of the work Thefellow, very genteelly dressed, and wearing spectacles He pretended to be very hot, and was holding his hat in his left hand before hi of the pocket with the fingers re soYou know the cat does not give a single stroke, but a succession of taps, so quickly following each other that you can scarcely see how it is done The incident was rather curious and a
I fear poor Amenomori was disappointed--after all his pains about Haneda
It was just as well that we made the trip yesterday To-day the weather is mean,--cloudy, hot, and dusty all at the saold,--and lilac-flashi+ng dragonflies,--and a gloriousyour shoulders I have no doubt about your finding Fuji child's-play--even Fuji could not break such a back as that; but I think that you will do well, on the clihtly My experience was that the less eating the easier cli I took one drink on the stiff part of the cliuides,--and I was sorry for it The necessity is to reduce rather than stiet to the rarefied zone Perhaps you will find another route better than the Gotemba route; but Amenomori would be the best adviser there
Ever affectionately, with countless thanks,
LAFCADIO
TO MITChell McDONALD
TOKYO, August, 1898
DEAR McDONALD,--I a you two of Zola's books, and a rather complex social novel by Maupassant--not, any of them, to be returned I recommend ”Rome” only; the others will just do to lend to friends, or to read for the sake of the French, when you have nothing better on hand
What a glorious day we did have! Wonder if I shall ever be able to make a thumbnail literary study thereof,--with philosophical reflections The naval officer, the Buddhist philosopher, and the wandering evolutionist
The iether too sunny and happy and queer to be forever lost to the world I must think it up some day