Autograph letter signed : Tel Aviv, to "Alicia," [1966] Feb. 12.

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Autograph letter signed : Tel Aviv, to "Alicia," [1966] Feb. 12.

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Relating how one knows that the travels must come to an end and it is time to go home; pondering how one's powers of observation are "conditioned by our background and experience, but do we ever observe anything objectively, do we ever see anything whole and as it is? I have always fancied myself as a fairly objective looker, but I'm beginning to wonder whether I do not completely miss whole categories of things;" relating the story of an Italian photographer who came to American and "in every American city he had unconsciously sought and found Italy;" adding that he hates "to miss things, Alicia. I am incurably, double-eyed curious. I know I can't see everything or even understand everything I see, but I do resent my limitations, some of ignorance, some of stupidity and, I'm afraid, some of indolence. But we do know some people, don't we, who take pride in their inability and their refusal. Everyone has played the fairy wish game. Maybe we never stop playing it. If I could be granted a magic wish, it would be understanding because there is so very much I don't."

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