4 Ag. 1943

Dear Tasca

I think there are four degrees re/ property
which is french for ownership./ property perhaps meaning
in english " what IS owned ".

Anyhow, the terminology shd/ be clear/ and the degrees are.

Absolute ownership of what is OWNED, with NO responsibility
to anyone else, to the state or to the public.

Ownership WITH responsibility . and that implies a legal
definition of WHAT responsibility.

The right of USE to something not owned.

The absolute denial of ownership ; along with the virtual
denial or attrition of the right of use.

///

The kind of tax on palaces which do no harm/ as per one in
Venice (tabaro, I think it was) which necessitates destruction,
sale of works of art: etc. ruin by inheritance tax/
etc./etc/ that is bad

Works of art ought to be lent to pubk/ galleries for 2 to six
months per year; according as judged of interest/
otherwise their USE belongs to someone who cares enough to
acquire them.

In fact, Mencius met a Mihite; and answered a number of the
simpliste questions raised by communism.

You ruin the whole of the good life if you li limit use

to products of mass production.

"Have you seen Udon Por's "Politica socio economica" / which I translated?

Pubk; libraries aren't enough / some books must be USED a casa/
even if rare, i;e; books that can't be reprinted and
pay the printing bill. ( † mean pay it even under ideal conditions,
state cant always be called in when one needs thirty copies/
tho' perhaps it shd/ be.

Training of a bureaucracy is necessary, prelude to any permanent
or even moderately durable order. Hence my howl for Confucio.

† dont suppose you have time to breathe/ Por's Address is 5 B.
via Angelo Masina ( unless my memory is failing ).

phone 581815 / ask him where you can get the book/
it was pubd/ by Lavoratori d'Industria/ Corp/

and lets no go off into smoke.

3 Feb 59

Dear Al

I am, among other things, the AUTHORIZED correspondent of a respectable amurkn Daily, of course the idea of sending news from Italy is absurd. It has never been done and no selfrespecting denizen of an american city wd/ READ it if sent,

BUT in yr/ various adumbrations you might shoppe round and find out some about

Mr or more probably Dr Klinger, alledgedly " german " tho whether nordic, teutonic, germanic or of what is now known in the U.S. as " of german background "

DIREKTOR, who is blocking my application for membership in the Ass/ Stampa Estera.

alzo what become Packard or Packhard who used to lend gaiety to that isterooshun ?

I dunno if one shd/ ask fer seconds and cutlasses in an affair of honour re/ bonafiedes of my notarized credentials,

The operas of Gilbert and Sullivan have long enjoyed popularity.

3 Feb 59

Dear Al

I am, among other things, the AUTHORIZED correspondent of a respectable amurka Daily,

of course the idea of sending news
from Italy is absurd. It has never been done and no selfrespecti
denizen of an american city wd/ READ it if sent,

Mr or more probably Dr Klinger, allegedly " german " tho
whether nordic, teutonic, germanic or of what is now known in
the U.S. as " of german background "

also what become Packard or Packhard who
used to lend gaiety to that versterooshun ?

I dunno if one shd/ ask fer
seconds and cutlasses in an a fair of honour re/ bonafieds
of my notarized credentials,

ALBERGO GRANDE ITALIA & LIDO

DIRETTAMENTE AL MARE
ristorante all'aperto tutto l'anno
SPIAGGIA PROPRIA - GARAGE

RAPALLO

Dear Al

IF you included useful information in yr/ last I have
forgotten it, and the doggymint is reposing nel Tirolo.

DID you say where one cd/ EAT in Roma. The S.Carlo democratized .

?? Libotte ?

Dom Pedro sez Alfredo's is there, but I never cd/
swallow that tourist-catching a'mosphere.

And the Alb. Italia on the blink when the bugrocrats took over the
old locale. AND my consort sez damned if she will a hotel where
you can't eat in bad weather. the corfee never being gt/ shakes in the

My citrous fruit prospect went bak to the U.S. in circles that
were better in living speech for nuances than by epistolary.

Am hoping to get decalcified, having @ moment enough spare in
cervical region to outfit a giraffe.

Piazza Ennio 1.

yrz

EZ

Last nooz item/ venuti a mani in editorial office in Warsaw
re/ print or not to print Ez. the anti-fasc comics and the
pro-kulch being in contradictory humour. such as the powYer ov
song.

8 GiuGN

[1959]

TEL. CENTR. 54.92 - 50.30 - 50.14

HOT (el) Italia

RAPallo

9 Lug.

35 deGreez @ station oggi.

ER AI/ having yr/ come-carrier at heart
and not willing to put it in jeopard :

/ it inconvenience you to make notarized statement in triplicate?
( presumed fee three times 500 1/ to my debit.

I to plus side, I made a scenario with Ferrucio Cerio, at time of decenni
emphasis on RISorgimento . woft I thought the Regime ought to tie to.

AND with present wave of publicity both for Ez and
uribaldi
it might be owrth looking up Cerio . I HH would have done so had
not damn faded with Romen heat.

I dont swa llow idea that HE is fadin'. ( consignore Pisani, going strong, 
I dont mean he said so, one dont arrive at that simplicity with 
'civescs.) But he is pleased.

// so much fer THAT.

I T local lion( vide enc. ) did AT once phone to see if they WOULD
write Dele/

One gathers fragments of atmosphere.

I might be handly , as above, to have notarized statement re/ investigator
id my HERRM boss.

I chiefly that you did NOT boss / that you thought I wd/ have told yu to go
ell jeehannum if you had.

I want sometime to collect these fragments.
remember. Andreaini ( if that is or was his name) furious at idea
that ANYbody in the office wd/ have thought they knew enough to emend
ry Ez-ment.

Iugaro not in phone bk/ tho VERY englaisih voice at his alleged number
sured me that C.O. WAD left five years ago, BUTT that he was in
new phone book ( which NEW I was consulting).

Chief three points / that yu wdn't have thot of telling me.
that I had ( if such was the case) called yu a sicilian blockhead
or ligneous substance of some sort.

I don't do it if it can cause you and yrs/ any inconvenience.

BEM

Sekkertary suggests you repeat statement that WAS been printed in
arcure de France/ over signatures Scarfoglic, Pellizzi, Villari ,
HERRM Belief in free expression of opinion, on part of those qualified.
his Promise to E.P. not to ask him to say anything contrary to conscience
duties as U.S. citoyen.

( if you ever knew of that detail). If not
il try to get you printed copy.

famig.

saluti alle componenti della tua

23 Lug

Dear Al

Thanks very much. Point re/ notarization is well taken.
excuse my iggurunce of details / it has bitched me on frequent
occasions.

I collapsed with roman heat.
phone connections, gornoze. It did n't sound like his voice, biiihi.
Goedel said he was coming thru Rapallo to on way north, saw him

Goedel said he was coming thru Rapallo to on way north, saw him
for ten minutes on a.m. of departure, but he hasn't turned up / and I have
only his phone number, not his address.

only his phone number, not his addres
by car with consodrt and hound dawg I spose he has by now gone north

Hard to get used to me with no mot or inside me than can be trusted
to work at given time or for dura tion of more than a few hours.

sorry to have missed yr/ terraza. s intt alla gent/ma consorte.