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P.O. Boxes, Mailboxes and the No. 17
nakymaton:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 05, 2007, 01:04:32 pm ---Twenty, 25, and 30 years ago I used to be a great writer of long letters--and that was back in the days when it was still done by hand, with a pen, on real paper! :o ;D :laugh:
Now I just wonder how the heck I had the time. ... :-\
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No e-mail. E-mail (and other electronic communication) has replaced letters for me.
(You lovely people are the recipients of all those letters I should be sending to my high school friends. Aren't you all lucky. ;D )
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: nakymaton on February 05, 2007, 01:52:23 pm ---No e-mail. E-mail (and other electronic communication) has replaced letters for me.
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Me, too. My handwriting is shot from years of taking notes, and I can't compose anything without deleting and adding and cutting and pasting. So if I were to write a letter I would do it on the computer anyway. And if I've gone that far, why spend 39 cents and wait two days for it to get there, when I can send it for free in two seconds and maybe even get a response by the end of the day?
The only personal mail I send these days are birthday, thank-you and sympathy cards.
opinionista:
--- Quote from: Phillip on February 05, 2007, 01:00:12 pm ---:)
I think this is often true, but not always the case. When one of my closest friends irritated me with a whole series of events which threatened the friendship, I sat down and composed at least a five page letter putting my feelings and arguments down on paper. I already have a tendency to produce incredibly long messages anyway, so for me, five pages isn't out of line. And I have done that with other people as well, usually as a last resort when talking doesn't work. My friends immediately recognize "the Phil talk" or "the Phil letter" as being a clear warning sign there is a lecture or more or less final warning coming their way about something which they ignore at their peril. It's not a common practice with my male friends, and a lot of straight ones have even dumped "you're worse than my girlfriend" on me after getting one.
Sometimes, a heartfelt well-composed letter can cut through the noise and be better understood than side comments or a phone call. But I could imagine Jack and Ennis doing nothing of the sort. Well, I could imagine Jack -possibly- doing it at some point. As I've mentioned before, I'm sure Ma Bell was very upset over the fact neither let their fingers to the walking and picked up the phone and talked to one another. Rates are lower after 9pm! Dramatic effect for the filmmakers I'm sure, although one could believe Ennis didn't have a phone at times, and considering Jack had trouble tracking Ennis down after the divorce, that could partially explain it.
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I wish all the boyfriends I had had throughout my life were like you Phillip. The longest letter I received was from one of them who lived away from me but it wasn't exactly a letter since he draw everything he wanted to tell me. He's a professional cartoonist. It was cool though, but it wasn't an actual letter but some sort of a personal long comic strip.
As for Ennis and Jack, I don't see them writing long letters to each other. Remember, they were "both high school dropouts, country boys, both rough-mannered, rough-spoken, inured to the stoic life." And Ennis in particular didn't make it to be a sophomore and "was farsighted enough to dislike reading anything except Hamley's saddle catalog." That description IMO doesn't fit a person who would write long letters. In fact, that's part of their tragedy, that they never spoke (out loud or in writing) about their feelings not even about the sex, until later in their lives when Jack couldn't take it anymore, and it was too late by then.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: opinionista on February 05, 2007, 02:31:50 pm --- Remember, they were "both high school dropouts, country boys, both rough-mannered, rough-spoken, inured to the stoic life." And Ennis in particular didn't make it to be a sophomore and "was farsighted enough to dislike reading anything except Hamley's saddle catalog."
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Ironically, in the movie, Ennis is the better speller.
nakymaton:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on February 05, 2007, 02:50:14 pm ---Ironically, in the movie, Ennis is the better speller.
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Which actually makes me feel even sorrier for Jack -- Lureen's got a college degree, and Jack can't spell "you're" correctly. Probably yet another way that Jack felt alone down there.
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