Dara has a hoarse cough. Had no sleep last night. Takes only milk; has no appetite.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1937
Letter ID: 2044
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
September 13, 1937
Dara has a hoarse cough. Had no sleep last night. Takes only milk; has no appetite.
Mother says when he came to pranam today his head was very hot. He complains of the painfulness of his throat which prevents taking anything but tea and milk. What about one or two tea-spoonfuls of honey in a cup of very hot milk? Mother can give him the honey.
Guru, this poem1 knocked me on the head when you slammed the door on correspondence. Now my head is all right, so it wants to try its luck again. So?
Very beautiful. You seem to have found yourself in English poetry.
“... Dim reminiscences
Of flights across thy skies...”
Too many S’s?
[Sri Aurobindo cancelled the s of “flights”.]
I have beheaded one that was in excess.
1 “Secret Hands”, Sun-Blossoms, p. 3.