I completely approve of the projects mentioned in your letter dated 15 August.[1]
Nevertheless, remark that they are, without the least attempt to explain, in perfect contradiction with the theses that you unfortunately supported in your letter dated 1 June.[2]
Thus I would like to know the reasons that motivate these analyses, which are so strange, at this moment:
a) direct pressure from the authorities?
b) indirect pressure, of the same origin, but politically presented by the insinuations of the very suspect Doge?[3]
c) the pure pleasure of contradicting Cavalcanti,[4] an activity to which you are only too often devoted and to the detriment of better activities?
In the expectation of reading a response concerning this remarkable problem,
CavalcantiP.S. I have indeed received the books. Thank you. I would love to have the 1977 pirate edition of the [Society of the] Spectacle.
[1] Letter from Sanguinetti to Debord dated 15 August 1978.
[2] Letter from Sanguinetti to Debord dated 1 June 1978.
[3] Aliberti Mignoli, Sanguinetti's attorney.
[4] Pseudonym adopted by Guy Debord.
(Published in Editions Champ Libre, Correspondence, Volume II, November 1981. Reprinted in Guy Debord Correspondance, Volume 5: January 1973 - December 1978, Fayard, 2005. Translated from the French by NOT BORED! August 2007. Footnotes by the translator.)