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Scant progress with Freud this summer. I "taught" the Bible last year. I've never read anything by Buchminster Fuller.

Did you even here of Cioran, an essaysit (The Temptation to Exist; The Fall Into Time)? He's next on my list. I keep trying to read The Myth of Sisyphus, but have never finished it.

My student/teacher dread persists. Like everything else, I imagine I'll learn to live through it.

Re Plath. An essay on her seems more [minimally] required than anything else these days. Have you seen Hardwick's in the NYRB? or Alvarez' in NAR #12? Alvarez is about the best so far. With everyone recreating her in obit. I feel there's nothing of interest (although perhaps something perhaps of academic