Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1937

Letter ID: 1847

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

February 9, 1937

I have no energy to write or fight. Down in the pool!

Wade out and up.

I have glanced through your translation of J’s poem. But can’t you make some time and put it into metrical form, since you have done so much? The translation, though beautiful, loses much of the magnificence of the original.

This costs no trouble – done in ten minutes – to metrify is the very deuce.

I forgot to report about S. You know he has a cut just above the patella. Due to constant walking it’s a gaping wound. Today while we were dressing it, he fainted! He said I frightened him by saying that it was serious. I said nothing of the kind – except that it may require stitches, which he took to be serious. Just a stitch will do. But he is so nervy! We may wait till tomorrow and see?

Mother has told him to take rest – perhaps with rest he may not need stitching. I don’t think he is very courageous about these things.