To George Sturgis
Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. August 1st 1926
My time here passes pleasantly enough, but I seem incapable of finishing anything. I read all sorts of things, — I have just finished “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” — and begin enthusiastically various articles and chapters, but get embroiled in the abundance of my repetitions, and have to leave the thing unfinished. I suppose it is an effect of old age, fatigue, and too much chewing the cud in solitude.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Three, 1921-1927. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002.
Location of manuscript: The Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge MA