my senior, said to me in reference
to a man one one now who like himself is
now m no more, a man so unimpeachably
respectable that against him nothing was ever
openly said tho' among the few something much was
whispered, "Yes X__ is a nut not to be cracked
by the tap of a lady's fan. " You are aware that I am
the adherent of no organized religion
much less of any philosophy built
into a systim. Well, for all that I
think that to try and get into X__, enter yet there is no getting into X__'s
his labyrinth and get out again, without a clue derived from
some source other than what is is
known as knowledge of the world — I
should get that is were hardly possible, at
least for me. " Long ago an honest scholar
my senior, said to me in reference
to a man one one now who like himself is
now m no more, a man so unimpeachably
respectable that against him nothing was ever
openly said tho' among the few something much was
whispered, "Yes X__ is a nut not to be cracked
by the tap of a lady's fan. " You are aware that I am
the adherent of no organized religion
much less of any philosophy built
into a systim. Well, for all that I
think that to try and get into X__, enter yet there is no getting into X__'s
his labyrinth and get out again, without a clue derived from
some source other than what is is
known as knowledge of the world — I
should get that is were hardly possible, at
least for me. " Long ago an honest scholar
Transcribed by: John Bryant