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being behind me. I don't know how much verbiage I had--an enormous amount of it, because my mind had proved so prolific, you see, that I tended to run everything into the ground. Also, you see, there was an enormous amount of overlapping. I would talk about a certain aspect or a certain subject or a certain episode in one part of the book, and then way on, oh many, many chapters later, something would come up and I would say, “See, this same thing happened here.” Or “The results of that thing that happened way back in Albany happened again.” Well, that made a hodge-podge, to try to connect them--terrible.

I got very discouraged about it along about the last two weeks. I finally got myself to saying, “I've got to turn it in on the first of May if I only turn in so many thousand words and take them out of the dictionary, it's got to be delivered because I said I would deliver so many thousand words.”

Anyhow, this stuff was not ready then. It certainly was not publication material then, because it was so over-burdened, it was so redundant. So then one day I talephoned to George Bye and I said, “I'm very discouraged about this.”

He'd been to see me a couple of times, and he saw I was working very productively, and he thought all right. One man from the Viking Press had been down to see me. He called on me when he was in Washington, and I showed him a lot





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