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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  • Helene Hanff: Yorkshire pudding out of this world. We have nothing like it. I described it to someone as a high, curved, smooth, empty waffle.

  • Helene Hanff: I love used books that open to the page a previous owner read oftenest. When Hazlitt came, he opened to, "I hate to read new books." And I hollered, "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.