名人家书：兰德尔加雷尔致妻子麦凯贾雷尔_美文

名人家书：兰德尔加雷尔致妻子麦凯贾雷尔

writing the addresses on the envelopes stirsmuch envy in me;peabody college，nashville，andothers to san marcos and all sorts of charming colleges——lucky cadets!what funny names people have：they're a great pleasure to the postalemployee.i'm afraid that as long as i have this job，my letters will suffer.letters about letters(andthe outside of letters at that)aren't a rewarding genre.

how i wish i could see kitten drinking out of the bathtub.i was as surprised as if you'd told mehe'd taken to walking on the ceiling.

we had spareribs for lunch，and i was givensix——and the smallest was about eleven incheslong.there was so much bone i couldn't helpthinking of the boy's remark about education——to have gained so little and have gone through somuch;except i've forgotten how it went.

i think perhaps if i ever have time i can writesome good dreary poems about the army，and thewar;but they won't be printable while i'm in thearmy，and they won't be liked by anybody until the20's——when those return.

even though my job is hard and long，it's stillwonderful not to have the rollcalls，the drill，theaimless waiting and waiting，and all the rest.

i'll write to lambert davis and ask himwhether harcourt brace minds my using“orestes”and five or six poems for a new directions anthology(they can reprint them in my secondbook with them)。if they don't want me to presumably it'll only be because they want another of mine fairly soon.