Now that X has returned, J wants to publish- her novel... Is there any fear of complications?Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1937
Letter ID: 2034
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
August 31, 1937
As for S, we have exhausted our means. One thing remains – liver extract which I have withheld till now.
You can try that – since it is his liver – let’s see if it extracts him out of his agonies.
R comes to us now and then for allopathic drugs. Today he came and asked for apomorphine. This drug is only used in urgent cases of poisoning where evacuation of stomach is immediately called for... We don’t know anything about the case. We are asked to give certain drugs, we give; for what case etc. we don’t enquire because he may not like it. What should be done in such cases in the future?
God knows! Perhaps, if it is anything really dangerous, play the Artful Dodger1 and, otherwise, pray fervently to God that nobody may be poisoned. But for whom does he ask this, I wonder? Alys? He has no other patients except Lakshmi perhaps at the moment.
“Half-veiled figures of unknown splendour
Smile with the happy utterance...”
Can they smile?
May or may not, but smiling here risks being inane; so I dodge the smiles out.
Now that X has returned, J wants to publish- her novel... Is there any fear of complications?
It can be taken up, but I refuse to prophesy anything about complications. X seems to be in a beatified mood just now; perhaps he will be saintly and good-tempered about it, but one can’t be sure.
1 A character in Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist.