René Magritte (1898–1967).

Due to the banks and international difficulties, he asks Béalu to send him foreign currency by registered post. He encloses with his letter ‘some more colour plates’ and will soon be sending him ‘some monographs which the publisher is due to bring me. I cannot blame you for the lack of resources for distributing the journal. I am sure that for you, as for me, the time for such experiments has passed. Empirical life, no more than random life or necessary life, are models persuasive enough to determine us against our will. Your comment regarding water and stones is welcome. In the course of my further discoveries, the aspect of the question it raises must not be overlooked. I am at this stage: Italian realities have never lost their mystery: earth, stones and water as far as the eye can see exist together without one knowing what might unite these foreign things. One suspects something…’…