I've been fascinating by him for years. Especially by "The Mind of Mnemonist" which came up by the '69 in English. But then when "The Man with a Shattered World" came out in '73, I think, late '72, I wrote a review of it, which also became an essay on Luria. And this was published in June of '73, which was the same month when my book "Awakenings" came out. And then the following month I got one of theese wonderful envelopes from Moscow with the beautiful stamps and Lura's handwriting. I was very excited it was like I getting a letter from [Froid]. And he sent me first a very long letter in responce to my essay, which realy spoke of many-many aspects in his oun life. And how [seputy] felt from both the [Pavlov] and [Skinner]. And from mechanical thinking, how important for him it was to see things in terms of social development. So it was never just an [atonomist] child with a mother [child] It was a dialog. And when he spoke of many-many things including the way which Pavlov responded to Luria's oun first book "The Nature of Human Conflicts", when Pavlov refused to read this as such a [cool yourself] a scientist. It was a wonderful open letter. And then a week after that I got another letter about "Awakenings". And this was a start of correspondense which went until Luria's death in '77. But I've never met him. I don't know what inhibited me from going to Moscow. Not [see the correspondence then wremwfied a] different directions. Earlier on he [hoped] on mind we publish in english some of the calssic on russian neuropsycology [Sterhanov] and some works of his own father [Arnold(?)] Luria.

In 1974 when I had my strange leg accident with a feeling [alien] action of the leg, I will [shed light] I've found it [uninteligable] and I couldn't comunicate with anyone except the Luria. And I wrote him. And there was a lot of correspondence about this. And he [which] especially had to do with the mixture of action of body image and how something could be excluded from body image or eliminated if if wasn't active. And I wondered what I should write about this [on note]. And he finally got so enthusiastic he sent me the telegram from Moscow an said "Do it!". And I [didn't it quote] my letter if you want to. And in the '75 I started feel a passion of from Tourette's sindrome. And I sent Lura some papers of this, some [ordier] papers. And it was fascinated [in forthy] or some similarities between the mental processes of the Tourette and his mneminist. In [part his order as mneminism in action. Dunkan Dallas a filmmaker hoped to make three documentaries. One was Luria, one was Skinner, and one was me. He made the documentaries with Scinner and with myself. But by that time Luria was feeling too ill, I think, to contribute. Occasionlly comletely different things would come out of the letters. One of the most fun was detective story. And I sent him a number of those. (He was a terrific admire). I think the one that he liked the most was the Sherlock Holmes these one the 70% solution, which emergence Sherlock Holmes as a cocaine addict been analized by [form] it. Luria loved that. He especially was [safening] from the [Necleus freeling] books.

-So, what extent you one of the few people who write about Luria and his notion on romantic science. And I'm curious about a sort of initiation of the couse factor relationship between your ideas on those topic and his.
-Whell, the early Luria I read was very different. I think the first Luria I read was probably at the late 60's was "The Nature of Human Conflits". And in particular the way in which someone was [Parkenseson], who could not take a step by himself. But could organize movement by using the higher court(?) mechanism. And since I had seen those constantly on my oun patients. But this was the first concideration I,d seen. And then I in the mid 60's "Higher cortical functions" was published and somehow the [staltifying(satisfying?)] was fenomenological neurology in which I've been tought. Couldn't been replaced by this wonderful [motion] of this functional systems with different components. And that seem to be very exciting. But then an entirely different sort of excitement came in when I saw the "The Mind of a Mnemonist". I've read the first 30 pages and just thinking it was a novel. And then I realized that it wasn't a novel, but a wonderful key history was all the accuracy of science. But all the sensibility in drama and structure of the novel. And I think I'm sort of a story tell him myself, or other I have a story telling [impars], which sometimes seem to compete with the analytical impuls. But certanly seeing "The Mind of a Mnemonist", I think, made me [focusified] me in my feeling that I had to attempt some similar sort of portrets of my oun patients, which was I did in "Awakenings". I love victoria cases trees and richness of detail and the insight at the human character. And I had been feeling than neurology was becoming very [descicated]. In Luria's romantic [cases trees] I had the feeling of richness of 19 century naturalism. And it was recoverd [alone] with the functional analysis, which was completely new. And it [was] could take everything to a higher level. So I was thrilled by this.

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