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The lowly sock. We don’t often think of it as a pivotal part of our daily attire. But when socks matter, they really matter. Whether as mechanical ....
Some argue that the love letter constitutes a genre in itself since it has rules. Dwelling on memory, a love letter must acknowledge the absence of the beloved in some way, invoking while removing them. Most curiously, it almost always focuses more on the lover than on the beloved: the love object is a mere excuse for expression. “My dearest Theresa,” Lord Byron wrote to his mistress in his garden, August 1819. A century later, on a July afternoon in 1916, Captain Alfred Bland, a British officer in World War I, sat down before battle and did the same: “My only and eternal blessedness” began his letter to his wife. In a hundred years, it seems, not much had changed. ....