He is always doing that and losing his hair too into the bargain. If he objects to my keeping the book, I will give him a clout on the head which will help to keep his hair on.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1937
Letter ID: 1845
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
February 7, 1937
Friends have I none, Guru; to none can I open myself except to you. don’t forsake me, please.
Certainly not.
I send you a book of poetry1 to have your opinion on the Bengali poems there. They strike me as very powerful and original in the Tagorean age. I think they abound in surrealistic images and have some sort of similarity with my recent poems.
Have read two pages – very fine poetry. Shall read at leisure. But up to now nothing surrealistic. So far don’t find any identity with yours except a certain fullness and boldness of language.
Please don’t keep the book for long. Otherwise Premanand2 will lose all his prem and anand3!
He is always doing that and losing his hair too into the bargain. If he objects to my keeping the book, I will give him a clout on the head which will help to keep his hair on.
1 Poetry by Mohitlal Majumdar.
2 The Ashram librarian.
3 Love and delight.