To: ' ' maitconteevacationagmail.comi: Jeffrey Epsteinbeeyacation©gmail corn] From: Sent on 2 1:26:38 PM Subject: Re: It feels dilettantish not to finish what I started, but you're right re: attention being addicting and worthless. It is more or less exactly that. But we live in a specialized world and Fm no specialist: when I started (acting) I thought I would make myself a specialist in that field, until I realized it wasn't a real career. t don't mean to waste your time. I know you don't email. I am having trouble conceiving of the next step so I'm regressing. The only way forward is to take away from him and take over the conference. Then I can be a professional dilettante. On Sep 29, 2012, at 8:50 PM, Jeffrey Epstein wrote: old thinking suggests you should finish what you started.. it worked in a slow changing world. . I would suggest that the path leads to quite obvious results. no matter how much time you had taken to perfect your stride .re decisions time spent , backed by great evidence ,simply increases the ratio of heat to light. and diminishes accuracy of results. I would suggest that the wagon falling is apt. . the pleasure from the attention ( your cool lake dipping ). is addicting and in the end worthless. sorry. I have more faith in you than you have.. On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 2:35 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: Wagon+falling is the wrong analogy. It's more of a cool lake+dipping thing. I had a long mano-a-mano with my pops. He said it would be foolish to drop it after spending so much time seriously learning and pursuing it. He did compare me to a carpenter, though I'm pretty sure a carpenter is more steadily employable than an actor. These days every decision I make feels irrational, though the time I spend making them would suggest otherwise. On Sep 29, 2012, at 5:13 PM, Jeffrey Epstein wrote: falling off the wagon. ? understood. you are welcome to the island in nov. On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 7:33 AM, <[email protected]>