There cause and effect are plain as can be; the Tannhäuser, With all the correspondence involved, has told severely on an excitable system, and the "nerves of his brain".-scientifically speaking, the region round about the optic thalami-must pay the penalty. That "sharp knife" cutting, the "feverish tiredness in the limbs," and the sense of impending evil, are the Very symptoms of megrim; the attacks of which, especially brought on by mental labor, may sometimes be prolonged for several days by successive relapses. 'Only two lines; I mustn't write, because I can't; that's how things stand with me"; and after barely a dozen lines, "I can write no more. Good-bye." Three days later an equally short letter, so unusual in this correspondence, ends with 'That's all I'm able to squeeze out to-day. Don't take it " niiss!" September 8.On the same date' that notable letter to Liszt about Raff, Berlioz and new creations (p. 360 ant.), begins and ends as
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