After a moment, Mildred asked, “Can one write what one wishes here these days?” “That depends on one’s point of view,” he said. There were difficulties and demands, words to be avoided, but in the end language endured, he said. “Yes, I believe one can still write here in these times if one observes the necessary regulations and gives in a little. Not in the important things, of course.” Mildred asked: “What is important and what unimportant?”
