I think one of the reasons why these letters resonate with me the way they do is that they mix the big emotional and intellectual division of their day with personal issues in a way no novelist could improve on.
Yeah. But also complicated family relationships, omg. I can totally see how they both (mostly) meant well and yet just could not stop rubbing against those raw spots.
But you know what you'd do if I suddenly decided to declare myself a follower of old Prussia? You'd throw your notes for a Frederick the Great into the fire.
Ha!
As far as I can see, you have underestimated what you mean to me emotionally and overestimated your intellectual impact.
Speaking of meaning well but not coming across that way at all...! Like felis, I feel that is both a great sentence and, yeah, just as well Thomas didn't see that :P
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Date: 2021-05-25 03:52 pm (UTC)I think one of the reasons why these letters resonate with me the way they do is that they mix the big emotional and intellectual division of their day with personal issues in a way no novelist could improve on.
Yeah. But also complicated family relationships, omg. I can totally see how they both (mostly) meant well and yet just could not stop rubbing against those raw spots.
But you know what you'd do if I suddenly decided to declare myself a follower of old Prussia? You'd throw your notes for a Frederick the Great into the fire.
Ha!
As far as I can see, you have underestimated what you mean to me emotionally and overestimated your intellectual impact.
Speaking of meaning well but not coming across that way at all...! Like