To George Dalton (6 August 1960)

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[103] Dear George

You must be wandering not to hear from me so long - I am concerned myself about the narrowity basis o my existence, {how} my live is a it were not a my disposal fore closed for one piece of work {eating} it all up, leaving nothing ___ {Jor} the generous over flow that living is I do very much want to finish the new Dahomey on which I am working with Abe. It is a new book, reaching to the research (mainly French) that has occured in these years.

I read at once your & Paul's MS but had no time to compare [104] whether the _______phed copy you sent me was identical. But after careful reading I decided to read it again before _________ in detail. It is an important work. I was enormously thrilled by the theoretical advance of the crucial points of economic anthropology. For whole days, I was filled with the joy of thinking ___ the grand vista that opened up -

Meanwhile I have become myself […] [105] sociological harvesting, the broad … […] I am trying to ___ an open mind on the economic rationality of aspect of things (also on the materialistic __ the substantive sense à la Marxism) and can see them at work here and there, but for my life the deeper one probes into the "primitive" forms the less simple they appear and the more d__ their rationale seem to lie in the non-rational and spiritual (mental) spheres: Our particular sports (saving, calculating, craving for "more") would bore them, and would bore us, I suppose, without the sensational frills that ___ from service, technology and transportation - there on the playing fields of the {intellect} that are the saving grace of the rational pedestrian as one of a utilitarian dispensation. Please [106] forgive my seemingly vacuous silence, I am afraid, the d___ of existence that sometimes has a health angle that I am vain try to discuss.

Thank you for keeping me informed about your doings.

___ Ste Croix, in the E.H.R., April) is the first scholar outside of our circle who has seen the significance of […]

Please forgive my apparent laziness. I will be writing to you about the draft.

Best wishes, George.

Karl

PS. I am reading Lady Chatterley's Lover. What a sociological! What a writer! K.P.

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Reference:
KPA: 51/03, 103-106