In the marvelous change of tone in the Americans,[1] one sees the value of your lawyer.
I thank you for the books by Doeblin[2] and Dumontier. I still need 5 copies of the latter: I will give them out to people who were scandalized by the attempted censorship by those jealous degenerates.[3]
Cordially,[1] Translator's note: the editors of Zone Books. See letter to Voitey dated 13 April 1990.
[2] Alfred Doeblin, Bourgeois and Soldiers: November 1918, published by Quai Voltaire. [Translator: Voitey was the editor of Editions Quai Voltaire.]
[3] Translator's note: Lorenzo Valentine and Nicolas Lebovici, who attempted to cancel Editions Gerard Lebovici's contract with Pascal Dumontier to publish his book The Situationists and May 1968.
(Published in Guy Debord Correspondance, Vol 7: Janvier 1988-Novembre 1994 by Librairie Artheme Fayard, 2008. Translated from the French by NOT BORED! December 2008. Footnotes by the publisher, except where noted.)