The letter is slow, the love is long

Emmanuel 2022-10-03 16:09:51

It was very slow to read the old letters in one breath, but the man from the far other side has known each other for twenty years because of him. At first he was a stranger, and he became connected with an ancient book. Later, Helen said, Frank was the only one who knew him. Books are a very magical thing. What kind of books a person likes to read reflects a person's character. I have read two books recently, both of which are related to books, which makes me yearn to find a book partner to read together. In the form of correspondence and dialogue, the language is plain, but it is solid with the bits and pieces of life, allowing us to understand some of the history of the past. For example, in the 1950s, the United Kingdom also distributed grain, and the economic conditions of the United States and Britain were very different.

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  • Sven 2022-04-13 09:01:06

    Reminds me of the time when I was reading original books in the library in my freshman year. I know very well that this way of life in the cloud who sends brocade books is no longer acceptable in the world, and now who will read letters softly, like the whispers of lovers. "If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross, please give me a kiss, I owe it a lot..."

  • Marques 2022-04-13 09:01:06

    The title of the film at the beginning was translated into "Blood Shadow", which made me think I bought the wrong film.

84 Charing Cross Road quotes

  • Helene Hanff: Being used to the dead white paper and the stiff cardboardy covers of American books, I never knew a book could be such a joy to the touch.

  • Helene Hanff: [typing] WHAT KIND OF A BLACK PROTESTANT BIBLE IS THIS! Kindly inform the Church of England they have loused up the most beautiful prose even written. Who ever taught Dr. Tindall the Vulgate Latin. They'll burn for it, mark my words. It's nothing to me, I'm Jewish myself, but I have a Catholic sister-in-law, a Methodist sister-in-law, a whole raft of Presbyterian cousins, through my late Uncle Abraham who was converted, and an aunt who's a Christian Science healer. And I'd like to think none of them would countenance an Anglican Latin Bible if they knew it existed. As it happens, they don't know Latin existed.