1919
October 05 1919
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sunday, October 05, 1919
COPY OF LETTER
Berlin-Wilmersdorf. Aug. 29, 1919.
Aschaffenburger Str. 6 A II.
Dear Mr. Shipley:
An ocean of nonsense and badness and goodness and heroism has swept over poor Earth. What has come of it nobody knows. Life is insecure and fragile, and the future uncertain. Most of the chess masters seem to live.
Rubinstein lives in Poland; a year ago he was well, but since the revolution I did not have news of him. Dr. Bernstein lives as a lawyer at Odessa. Vidmar at Vienna. As to Alechin, I do not know where he is, but I think it probable that he lives somewhere in the South of Russia.
There are two young Russian masters at Berlin, Bogoljubov and Selesniew, who play well. I myself used the time of the war for writing a book of philosophy, Philosophic des Unvollendbar (The Philosophy of the Inachievadle) which, according to appearances, will soon find a body of enthusiastic adherents. In chess I have become a duffer, though with training I might learn the game anew. Probably the United States have now no room for me, and if you think differently please let me know. I am rather sick of war, famine, revolution, immorality and violence. Not that I despair of the world, not at all, but for the moment I should like to be out of the centre of the tempest, because my power of endurance is nearly used up, not physically, but morally. I have a longing to be at a quiet spot for a while, until I know that fruitful effort is again appreciated. My wife is wonderfully patient and enduring, as, in fact, all good women are.
I trust that yourself and family are well and in good spirits.
With kind regards.
Yours as ever, EMANUEL LASKER.
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