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City Smurf
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« Reply #20 on: July 04, 2012, 04:15:PM »
The only way to write a letter is to get a piece of paper and a pen and go to town on it.  This modernism involving typewriters and computers... bah!  And you need to make sure you fold the letter right... it makes it more impressive and romantic if done properly ;).
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EcceQuamBonum
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« Reply #21 on: July 04, 2012, 04:32:PM »
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The only way to write a letter is to get a piece of paper and a pen and go to town on it.  This modernism involving typewriters and computers... bah!  And you need to make sure you fold the letter right... it makes it more impressive and romantic if done properly ;).

Computers, no, computers are not for letters.  But don't be too hard on typewriters.  There is nothing as satisfying--not even the soft scratching of a pen on paper--as the clacking of a typewriter as it does its work.  And you can feel the type impressions on a typed piece of paper, which is marvelous.  Now, one prefers it be a manual rather than an electronic typewriter, but the typewriter is a fine and noble vehicle for the written word.  (But if you're going for romantic, you probably shouldn't use one.  Unless you're dating a hipster.  But why would you be dating a hipster?  Sticking tongue out at you)
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More an antique Roman than an Anglican.

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--St. Augustine, De peccatorum meritis et remissione, et de baptismo parvulorum ad Marcellinum, I.34
DrBombay
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« Reply #22 on: July 04, 2012, 04:48:PM »
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It took me triple the time to type on that thing that it takes on a computer. Can't even give it away.


Which is clearly why it was in a dumpster in the first place.  It needs to be thrown away, not given away.  Ashes to ashes and what not.

(an aside)

DrBombay,

Your dancing cat avatar is a distraction, but it cracks me up every time I see it!  Don't throw it away, at least not too soon.

Doce Me

My goal with the cat was to make Starry Plough sick every time he sees it.  I wonder if it's working?
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« Reply #23 on: July 04, 2012, 05:20:PM »
        * retch*
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Rosarium
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« Reply #24 on: July 04, 2012, 07:06:PM »
Quote from: City Smurf
The only way to write a letter is to get a piece of paper and a pen and go to town on it.  This modernism involving typewriters and computers... bah!  And you need to make sure you fold the letter right... it makes it more impressive and romantic if done properly ;).
Dysgraphia.

Typewriters are pens, the ultimate pen.
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James02
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« Reply #25 on: July 07, 2012, 10:56:AM »
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I write letters fairly often to my girlfriend.  (Though, as she will be moving here to begin her PhD work in the fall, I suspect that will soon become a superfluous habit.)
Here's a hint, and you owe me a case of Shiner Bock.  AFTER she moves to your town, KEEP writing the letters. 
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"And who do you say that I Am?"
"That one simple question, whether Jesus of Nazareth was God Incarnate, becomes increasingly decisive between people, as history moves forward. .... The answer to this question cuts into human ties and seems to reflect even on the nature of inanimate things.  What if:  all that is folly in the eyes of the Greeks, and scandal in the eyes of the Jews, ... is Truth?"

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« Reply #26 on: July 07, 2012, 11:12:AM »
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I write letters fairly often to my girlfriend.  (Though, as she will be moving here to begin her PhD work in the fall, I suspect that will soon become a superfluous habit.)
Here's a hint, and you owe me a case of Shiner Bock.  AFTER she moves to your town, KEEP writing the letters. 

To her new address of course.

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James02
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« Reply #27 on: July 07, 2012, 12:22:PM »
Good point.  Don't hand them to her, mail them to her. 
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"God's Wrath is Glorious, and I have a front row seat"

"We can not guarantee success.  We can only deserve it."

"And who do you say that I Am?"
"That one simple question, whether Jesus of Nazareth was God Incarnate, becomes increasingly decisive between people, as history moves forward. .... The answer to this question cuts into human ties and seems to reflect even on the nature of inanimate things.  What if:  all that is folly in the eyes of the Greeks, and scandal in the eyes of the Jews, ... is Truth?"

And there was no doubt about it -- towards Him we had been running, or from Him we had been running away, but all the time He had been in the center of things.
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