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The dieing art of the love letter. - 10/26/2008 9:30:57 AM   
missturbation


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Status: offline 		I'm sure most of us would recognise and admit that the art of letter writing is a rapidly dieing one! I find this a great shame, almost a tragedy as i have always loved recieving a hand written page or two of words from those i love, care for.
 
Recent reading material of mine though has me mourning another loss. The loss of the love letter!! I'm not sure whether it is down to the modern inventions of email and text messaging, or perhaps we have grown more cynical about love and therefore in our age romance itself is dieing.
 
How often nowadays would you see something like ' my dear sarah, never forget how much i love you, and when my last breath escapes me on the battlefield, it will whisper your name....' ?
Sullivan Ballou, july 14th 1861.
 
You are more likely to see a text saying 'in pub watching football, gone to xtr time. Be back l8r xx'
 
Someone tell me the art of the love letter has not been lost please !!
 
For those who like a good love letter and never recieve any lol, i highly recommend the books 'love letters of great men' and 'dispatches from the heart, love letters from the front line'.
 

 

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RE: The dieing art of the love letter. - 10/26/2008 9:36:33 AM   
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RE: The dieing art of the love letter. - 10/26/2008 9:55:27 AM   
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Someone tell me the art of the love letter has not been lost please !!



it is not lost.
granted the multiple page letters are few and far between, but little notes tucked into hubby's lunch box, left on the table for him to see when he comes home late and i am asleep, taped to the steering wheel of his car...these love notes will always exist.


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RE: The dieing art of the love letter. - 10/26/2008 10:03:42 AM   
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RE: The dieing art of the love letter. - 10/26/2008 11:33:10 AM   
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Status: offline 		paper handwritten letters are not a value.   sending one means you took the time.   a cheap pleasure at 0.42.   I bought a box of cards marked down- blank. I plan to send them out.  Simply to brighten ones day.  :-)

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RE: The dieing art of the love letter. - 10/26/2008 11:59:18 AM   
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Status: offline 		I haven't sent a handwritten letter through snail mail since my grandmother died.  She was a big letter writer.  It is a dying art along with good penmanship.  When I was in grade school in the early 80's, they still taught penmanship.  I always feel kind of proud when I get compliments on my handwriting.  From what I've been told, it's something they don't place much emphasis on in school now.

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RE: The dieing art of the love letter. - 10/26/2008 12:03:24 PM   
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It has not been lost, at least not in this household. Anytime that Himself has to go to a meeting where he's going to be away for a few days, I find little notes around the house .. in drawers, taped to the inside of the freezer, stuff like that and he has handwritten me several long pages of expressions of how he feels about me .. sometimes they're funny little songs he's made up, other times serious pieces about how he feels about me. Actually, he's much better at that stuff than I am. In a lot of respects, he's more of a romantic than I am. I usually just send him an email with the mushy/gushy stuff. It could be that he doesn't type very fast though so handwritting is a time saver. ::chuckles::

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RE: The dieing art of the love letter. - 10/26/2008 12:10:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		It's dying, not dieing.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dieing

However, I do lament the dying art of spelling.




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RE: The dieing art of the love letter. - 10/26/2008 12:45:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		The whole art and passion of wooing and of loving needs mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

You know where I hear the stuff of love letters sometimes, these days?  Song lyrics.

"mouth to mouth
I asked you to stay
mouth to mouth
but you're drifting away."

- from Mouth to Mouth, by The Glove




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RE: The dieing art of the love letter. - 10/26/2008 12:54:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		My hands are bad. It is lucky for me to type- and on a lap top.  I broke yet another glass due to my poor grip.

So my handwriting which is bad to begin with is HORRIBLE.  I wanted the carpal tunnel surgery but they want me to go to an orthopedic DR.  Which would mean physical therapy. I spend way long enough in PT.  So I blew off the appointment.  I can do hand exercises, right here at home. Stretching and gripping a blue rubber ball.

Ya know- I used to write friends in Chicago. Quite a bit. But 2 old friends are so busy they dont have time to read my letters.

So- that stopped.   I have one friend Ild like to call or write to, but I dont know what to say.  Her husband passed Jan 1, and I just dont know how to reply to her.  She is 82, and any day with sunshine is over with for good. (in her world)

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RE: The dieing art of the love letter. - 10/26/2008 1:04:37 PM   
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RE: The dieing art of the love letter. - 10/26/2008 1:10:02 PM   
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RE: The dieing art of the love letter. - 10/26/2008 1:46:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		Nooooo, actual pen on paper writing of letters is not dead, many people still delight in putting pen to paper. Myself, I love to use an old fashioned ink pen, my current one being a 1952 shaeffer's snorkel ink pen, which writes beautifully, a wonderful instrument, the height of technology at the time and still the world's most sophisticated pen. I love to guide the flow of ink on paper and write. Snail mail fits the letter writing age, slow to write and slow to receive, but a hand written letter in beautiful mistake free copperplate writing is an art in itself and a delight to behold.

To me, one who takes the trouble to write not only legibly, but beautifully, never mind the words, the calligraphic art makes the letter more than worth reading.

Love letters can also be sprayed with a favourite parfum mixed with water, so not only the words, but near on the essence of the sender arrives with the letter.


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RE: The dieing art of the love letter. - 10/26/2008 2:10:15 PM   
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I have one friend Ild like to call or write to, but I dont know what to say.  Her husband passed Jan 1, and I just dont know how to reply to her.  She is 82, and any day with sunshine is over with for good. (in her world)



This is Darcy

Perhaps a phone call to your friend will give her a few moments of sunshine. A simple hello and a chat about nothing at all will make her feel as though she still has her friend, and I'd lay money that it would brighten her day.

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RE: The dieing art of the love letter. - 10/26/2008 2:21:51 PM   
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The art of writing a love letter is not lost, but merely in the hands of us select few who can construct one properly these days. When the.dark. and I were first courting (another of those woefully underused terms) we wrote extensive letters to one another. Sometimes simple, sometimes deep and sometimes nauseatingly sentimental (to anyone but us, of course) they made us both smile, feel closer to each other, and bring the occasional tear to the eye.

Of course, a handwritten, perfume embossed, ribbon tied missive is the most ideal of artworks, but in this age of electronic communication it is perfectly acceptable to send a virtual version (though do remember to send a 'real' one from time to time).

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RE: The dieing art of the love letter. - 10/26/2008 2:26:44 PM   
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RE: The dieing art of the love letter. - 10/26/2008 2:37:22 PM   
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Someone tell me the art of the love letter has not been lost please !!
 


a) who are you and what have you done with missturbation?????

b) love letter writing is far from dead ... but it is in a phase 3 coma.

This is monumentally soppy ... but this is me (romance novel expert and general Mills &Boon authoress in the making) .. When I made the trip out to the States to meet DV I took with me a complete works of Shakespeare - we often talked literature and he admitted there were a great many plays he wanted to read. SO I dug around and found a nice copy of the Bard's complete works. The night before I flew out I was in a serious tither .. I poured out all the hopes I had for the trip, all the emotions and love I felt for him, every dream wish and terror I had about finally meeting him into a long love letter. I wrote it on that fine tissue like paper and slotted it inside the book, Kate's final speech in Taming of the Shrew had particular significance for us so the letter bookmarked that page. I wrapped the book up and gave it to him almsot as soon as I arrived, but told him not to open it until after I had gone.

Never heard a single word from him about it.

Heard plenty about the fact that one of his shirts was under starched however.

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RE: The dieing art of the love letter. - 10/26/2008 4:14:52 PM   
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RE: The dieing art of the love letter. - 10/26/2008 4:17:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		Letter writing is declining alongside good English grammar and spelling.

(Am I the only person to notice "dieing" being used instead of "dying"? Not trying to be picky; but its an ironic mistake in this context.)

I've written a few letters recently, but in all honesty I tend to prefer to talk over a phone, or failing that send email.


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RE: The dieing art of the love letter. - 10/26/2008 4:59:46 PM   
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ORIGINAL: DarkVictory

I kept it, of course.  Have it to this day.  The letter, I mean.  :)


Was gonna say! ... would have thought you had laundered the shirt by now

I stand corrected .. apparently romance is not dead .. and the art of love letters lives on.

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