“On the 4^thof July I just finished ‘The Laughing Heart—Revised’ for the first time but not the last. My mind is so full of thoughts—about the book, the characters, the ideas, the language, the dilemmas, their resolution (or not). I’ll take the rest of my life, as short or as long as that time might be, to let you know how much I loved your epic…

“Thanks again ever so much for your book.”     4 July 2019