A letter is a communiqué. Nowadays, most letters we receive are bills, or ads, or receipts – paperwork and administrivia. But a personal letter is something different. It’s an attempt at telepathy, taking what’s inside one’s mind, one’s heart, one’s soul and giving to another.
The non-immediacy of a letter encourages mediation, while its physicality transforms it into a magic token. A letter can be a work of art in its own right, or a desperate …
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