Crickets' chirping find their way into a fuzzy part of the brain
Clear evening, light breeze, Eros picking up speed
Dear S,
This one’s typed on a staccato unto you; buildings glide into view (an illusion) like paper cinema; I’ve just concluded a lovely wondrous precious meeting with a friend.
CT makes me blush on the train — she gets it, in the same way you and I and friends get it — the vibrance and pleasure of reciting, the thrill of a stylish sentence: I idly paint a scene in my head of a languorous golden (because it must be so!) day with another, reading things and tasting words, trying them out: words colliding in the sun, under a glorious ray of light :this is a fantasy I will hold in my heart and search for. Some momentum and some dream.
It’s amusing how I am all about showmanship now in this letter to you, I feel completely emboldened to get fanciful, be a little flirtatious. When have I exhausted my speech for your (dear Reader) enjoyment? I hope this one will be fruitful, that it will be abundant in whatever it is you seek. I love a hearty homespun metaphor. Remembering our handshake.
So there were several things I wanted to comb through, but I want to be careful about how I set up this structure. I’m about to doze off now, having picked up the cursor again in my room, so let me rattle them off (please mind the loose ends)…
your holding studies: holding books v. phones, or other devices — have you ever cradled a book? Is it more common to cradle a computer? Does the book hold you in some way? Why I’m drawn to books: [1] a note on depictions of reading, [2] the way they fit in hands.
attraction and furtive glances: when you say “[someone being] a language you want to be fluent in” — I have been advised (gratefully so) to avoid overmythologizing the intial encounter with someone… what are the different ways you can know someone, try out that language? I consider my fluency in myself in perhaps working, almost intermediate efficiency… will I ever be fluent? Maybe the joy is in practicing.
There are some more (social) media minded things that I wanted to jot down, but I’m already hurrying to stuff this in your (telepresent) hands;
with love,
L