The art of writing letters
Amélie Nothomb once said that while novels and poems are texts where others are allowed to enter or not, letters and epistles cannot exist without the other person. You may write a letter to an imaginary friend, to a deceased addressee, even to a fictional figure - a letter is always a social gesture, involving two or more people.
As a fundamentally soci…
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