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girl from Bar-sur-Aube, now touring Europe from Nice to
Coblenz, in a desperate roundup of the men she had known
in her never-to-be-equalled holiday; another was the mak-
ing of arrangements to get home on a government transport
in August; a third was a consequent intensification of work
on his proofs for the book that this autumn was to be pre-
sented to the German-speaking world of psychiatry.
Dick had outgrown the book; he wanted now to do more
spade work; if he got an exchange fellowship he could count
on plenty of routine.
Meanwhile he had projected a new work: An Attempt at
a Uniform and Pragmatic Classification of the Neuroses and
Psychoses, Based on an Examination of Fifteen Hundred
Pre-Krapælin and Post-Krapælin Cases as they would be
Diagnosed in the Terminology of the Different Contempo-
rary Schools—and another sonorous paragraph—Together
with a Chronology of Such Subdivisions of Opinion as Have
Arisen Independently.
This title would look monumental in German.*
*Ein Versuch die Neurosen und Psychosen gleich-
mässig und pragmatisch zu klassifizieren auf Grund der
Untersuchung von fünfzehn hundert pre-Krapaelin und
post-Krapaelin Fällen wie siz diagnostiziert sein würden in
der Terminologie von den verschiedenen Schulen der Ge-
genwart—and another sonorous paragraph—Zusammen
mit einer Chronologic solcher Subdivisionen der Meinung
welche unabhängig entstanden sind.
Going into Montreux Dick pedalled slowly, gaping at
the Jugenhorn whenever possible, and blinded by glimpses

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