1/8/89  letter to Jeff
 

I hesitate to approach you and that goes for everyone, who has plans I don't relish disturbing but to my mind crash is to hard times as lightning to thunder and the clap coming will be cataclysmic.  The collapse of the US is the one satisfactory release of accumulated historical tensions and I still think it will happen, so I've overcome my timidity.

No one said history has to satisfy, of course, and the grounds for my conviction that it will are particular indeed.  I invented them but it felt like definition and since they passed every test I could put them to I've felt no need to submit them anywhere for approval--scrutiny is scrutiny and they've stood it already.

The paradigm wasn't there when we last talked.  I found later that down deep I'd forgotten to carry the two, as it were, and when I'd remedied it there emerged a coalition of theism and naturalism, both rigorous--clean as a whistle and elegant as hell, with methodological consequences in every direction as far as the eye could see.

I'm still without an audience and living on the edge.  Maybe unbroken poverty goes with the territory, but I'm about at my wit's end with it.  From scratch now would go something like the enclosed.

I'd like to talk to you.