Preserved lemons ii

    I don't know anything
    about substituting hon-
    ey for sugar so I don't
    do it. But I do believe
    in the health-giving
    properties (if only men-
    tal) of honey ..

                 I tolerate my own apathy as long

                 as it remains within limits, that

                 is, as long as it is only the tem-

                 porary reaction of one whose spir-

                 it is exhausted by the constant ef-

                 fort of making distinctions and sim-

                 ply needs a rest. It would be more

                 serious, however, if something of

                 the indifference I sometimes feel

                 were to leave its mark.. Indiffer-

                 ence and resignation, I believe,

                 are the most serious forms of hu-

                 man decline into nothingness.. I

                 hope no such decline threatens me.

  

Jeremiah Tower

Donald Sultan, paintings

Jeremiah Tower Cooks:

  250 Recipes from an

  American Master

op. cit.

Václav Havel

Letters to Olga

  June 1970 - September 1982

February 22, 1981

Paul Wilson

  translation

Alfred A. Knopf, 1988©