Lipton’s Journal/January 26, 1955/306

From Project Mailer

But what a compulsion. No sooner do I write it than I notice that I made a mistake in nonsense. I tried to write nonsese. So, let’s look at it. S and X are also sibling consonants. I think of sex and how hex and cess are echoes. I suspect cess as in cesspool and hex are words from the Middle Ages when the church was putting the hex on sex by making it cess.