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I think it's temperament, just a personal characteristic of temperament.

Is he a basically unhappy person?

Well, I think that sometimes he would say that he thought he was basically unhappy, but actually I think he's quite happy: he takes a great deal of pleasure in looking at the surface of the world, in small things, in the beauty of the landscape, and in living and eating and drinking, and in contacts with many people. He loves approval and applause. I think that he's basically a great deal of the time diverted and lives a great deal of the time on the surface, but underneath he may be unhappy and discontented. He has enormous energy, tremendou nervous energy, and has a retentive memory and is interested in imprsonal problems. He is not intereated in what his own relationships with his children or his family or his close friends are at all; he's not preoccupied with their welf are particularly.

Doesn't he have a close relationship with his sons?

Well, I think he loves his sons, but I don't think he understands then or understands how to help them particularly; I don't think he gives enough time or thought to it. It's very