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of this incident, my insistence on expressing my personal point of view, opinion, belief, attitudes, biases, if you will -- that these are to be equated with anti-Semitism.

I think this is a serious kind of mistake. I don't believe that any group of human beings has absolute right on their side, is beyond questioning by the critical mind. I think it's tyranny, when any group of human beings seeks to present any situation as if there's only one side, there's only one right, there is -- and that, whatever they do is justified by the direct pipeline to God.

You see in your friend's case here what you referred to in discussing attitudes toward Adam Clayton Powell, as a selective morality?

Yes. But you know, a curious kind of selective morality. And, I presume, when you get right down to it, also, selective morality is in the end self-defeating. It can't really stand up. Except to the extent thatit's supported by force and violence, and the power of the non-rational.

Yes -- I'm going to tell you, Edwin, I don't know why I'm so deeply disturbed. You know, look -- I am terribly disturbed. I have a terrible sense of hopelessness. You know. I'll get over it. I have to get over it.

I guess I'm also disturbed because I will not make the first overture to my friend. If he's still my friend. This is betraying another disturbing aspect of my being. A frailty. I will not take the initiative in acting as if, or pretending, that what happened