I have succeeded. Hooked on again and you must admit that everything is now coherent, cogent and masterly!!!Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1937
Letter ID: 1982
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
June 27, 1937
Yes, about J’s gland secretion it is true. Almost every doctor in England attributed her skin condition to lack of gland secretion and almost all said it was thyroid, so they prescribed thyroid pills. And her eczema also is chronic, due to the skin.
But deficiency of thyroid gland does not make people fat? J is not fat. It was thyroid gland medicine which turned T into a life-long skeleton.
Should thyroids be given internally?
I have no idea what are the effects of these pills. These gland medicines seem to be rather risky – only if you are sure.
Can’t interpret your exclamations about Deviprasad! What do you say to cod-liver oil?
He is already oily and greasy enough.
Here is another masterpiece1 – hooking on again, and seems a colossal sample of incoherent utterances. Please try to bring it to a Grecian perfection. And if you succeed in the task kindly illumine me.
I have succeeded. Hooked on again and you must admit that everything is now coherent, cogent and masterly!!!
“A solitary pilgrimage of the Soul
Rising from dark tombs of death
Whence began all conscious throbs of life
And end in one ultimate Breath.”
Is the construction O.K.?
I don’t know what you mean by “Whence”. Do you mean that it is from the tomb of death life comes and ends there in the ultimate breath? That is what the construction would mean. But trusting to the capital B I have changed to “To whence”.
How do you find the masterpiece?
Superb, after my dealings with it.
Amal appreciated yesterday’s poem2 very much. He says that it has become a very fine poem. Agree?
Of course, very fine indeed!
1 “Soul’s Pilgrimage”, Sun-Blossoms, p. 20.
2 “Cry from the Dark”, ibid., p. 29.