Translations:CP 04012/6/en
I'm very happy with the opportunity[1] which was offered to me to say (very badly: I blame myself) a little of the good that I think of your beautiful book. I have rarely read anything that has excited me more. If I had had a little more space, I would have better explained why. But, after all, what is the point of explaining, or wanting to “explain why”? I would be very annoyed, in any case, if you did not take this objection that I make to your "composition" as I understand it myself.[2]. No doubt your book is wonderfully composed according to the laws of your own sensibility. But it seems to me that it is not according to those who presided over the composition of most of the works from “home”. If you don't find that distinction very clear, please don't blame me, because I boxed a lot before dinner and was dead tired.