Back To Pen And Ink

[poliphilo]

A friend writes in an Xmas card to say he is now his partner's long term carer (partner is very old and has short term memory loss) and "it's a lonely life". 

I'll write him a letter. See if I can't get an old-fashioned correspondence going. He's an old fashioned chap who doesn't do electronic communication. We could talk about books if he cares to. He's as besotted a litterateur as I am. I'd enjoy having someone to sound off to about H.G. Wells (for instance).

I used to be quite good at writing letters- thirty, forty years ago.

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[sorenr.livejournal.com]

I had a very good friend some years back (okay, we met in 1997), and we lived close to each other for a year in Paris. Since then we started writing together, but then came e-mails and then Facebook. And now we hardly every write to each other, and as a consequence we know a lot less about each other than we used to. We used to write 4-5 pages - by hand - to each other 1-3 times a month, and now we just read each other's Facebook status updates.

I miss writing letters.