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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s

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I am not so sure that it is a good thing for everyone to have to grub for money a livelihood in this world, give chance for thinking, creative and get on the other hand.
Made some cynical remark about what some people wouldn't do for money. Mr V corrected me to say what people wanted to live. And he was right. I was wrong.
In my opinion I [illegible] has, but of course. He works until he has enough money to lay off for a few days. And he won't go back to work until he busts. In the meantime he takes it easy but that is not all. He enjoys himself but sitting always if he can and philosophizing and contemplating the beauties about him. We grub for an old age- always looking ahead, never looking to the present - that our more grubbing would defeat and we have no chance of attaining, isn't it? Now that we had determined that I have an ulcer. My battery average is pretty high, supporting you put me on Mrs. + C. and we duodenal extract or musin.

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I am not so sure that it is a good thing for everyone to have to grub for money a livelihood in this world, give chance for thinking, creative and get on the other hand. Made some cynical remark about what some people wouldn't do for money. Mr V corrected me to say what people wanted to live. And he was right. I was wrong. In my opinion I [illegible] has, but of course. He works until he has enough money to lay off for a few days. And he won't go back to work until he busts. In the meantime he takes it easy but that is not all. He enjoys himself but sitting always if he can and philosophizing and contemplating the beauties about him. We grub for an old age- always looking ahead, never looking to the present - that our more grubbing would defeat and we have no chance of attaining, isn't it? Now that we had determined that I have an ulcer. My battery average is pretty high, supporting you put me on Mrs. + C. and we duodenal extract or musin.