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I imagine brain cells dying, letters turning into sand, dust falling down a tablet, piano notes disappearing, typing keys vanishing, the alphabet collapsing, a computer screen wiping, no back-up, no recovery, all language packing up, all things going for ever – memory, childhood, consciousness and identity – irretrievable, irreparable, irreversible, irrevocable.
The faint traces of bloody palm prints on caves that house the bones of ancient combatants say to the ages that "It was here I died". Letters to loved ones, written before battle and buttoned into pockets, are the palm prints of modern war.
And although it is nearly impossible to define, those of us who have known love understand the painful bliss that the poet Keats felt in his dying letter to his fiance: "I cannot exist without you.
I believed I would die, writing letters to all my family and counting down the days until I would leave this world.
The de Sousas say that a pediatrician told them that she was likely to die; a letter from this doctor in Katerina's file states that "the baby has attacks of pallor for a few minutes, when she turns purple under the eyes...
The de Sousas say that a pediatrician told them that she was likely to die; a letter from this doctor in Katerina's file states that "the baby has attacks of pallor for a few minutes, when she turns purple under the eyes. . . .
Because the first metal dies for letters were named after the Latin word for "father," and thus called the patrix, while the mold that received the image was named, maternally, the matrix.
(Old letters die hard, though. In my beginner Spanish classes in America, I was taught the letters ch, ll, and even rr long after the 1994 spelling reform).
In the fall after my father died, her letter came.
Ye must eat where it lies; / And no one may carry away of that meat to his lair, or he dies". The letter, acquired by Adam Andrusier, director of Adam Andrusier Autographs, at the New York Antiquarian book fair last month from a fellow UK manuscript dealer, sees Kipling acknowledging that parts of the hierarchical jungle code may have been borrowed from other sources.
A few months before Oliver died, a letter came in which he wrote, "I remember all our swims together we are both water creatures.… My own future is very uncertain—I hope I can live tranquilly, but intensely, until the last drop of life-energy is gone.
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