From Michael Polanyi (16 November 1958)

(From Chicago)

[…]

I found our meeting particularly pleasant, peaceful and happy. It is undoubtedly sad that men are, despite of {Donne} to the contrary, islands, to each other. But evenso, there has been an easy communion of minds between us, as not before. Let us gratefully remember this even after.

I saw Hayek here today and shall have lunch tomorrow with the – rather deplected – Office on Social Thought. But my main purpose here is to consult a young physical named Balaz on a very curious idea on which I have been working for a year and a half in the periods between {bowts} of other work. The day after tomorrow I am off to Palo Alto and thence to Austin, Texas.

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