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-202- Bid school wort continued to decline and i t that in order to avoid another complete failure, he was taken fron the school at Lin a and cent to school in Steyr- He managed^ to complete the year, however, with nsrka which were barely satisfactory* It was while he wne there that the doctor told bin that he had a disease from which he would never recover* EUB react ion to thie w&« BflT&ra since i t brought the possibility of ME own dearth very much into the foreground and aggravated all hi* childhood fears, Tbe result wad that he did not return to school and finish his course, but stayed et hums where be lived a life which WDE narked by passivity. He neither studied DOT worked but apent noat of hie time in bed where be *«s again spoiled by hie aether who catered to his eFery need despite her poor financial circuaostancea* Ooe could BuppoBQ that this was the materialisation of ._ . hlfl conception of Partdlae irwoinxch ae i t reinstated an earlier childhood situation which he had always longed far. It would aeen from hip own account, however, that things did not go too amoothly, for he write* in VEW "ffihen at the age of fourteen, Uie young aan ifl diffmlflfled from school* i t la difficult to flay which ifl worse; his un- believable ignorance as far aa knowledge and ability are concerned, or the biting impudanca of hie behavior combined with an ixnorality which Bakes one's hair stand On ertd,,. The throa year old child hafl now becQtM a youth of fifteeo who de^plaea all authority*»#i»w be loitera eb(Htt( and God only knows when he CDUBB REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES