Surrounding sense of embracing love and comfort to you
that’s a bit wordy to actually have at the end of every email..
but it just occurred to me i don’t know exactly WHEN i started doing that
but it’s not a salutation that was used until recently
the last few years..
and it occurs to me that it is Common now
probably not in letters
but in Emails
…
all of us
so loving
so distant
so lonely
wish to span the gap
and
surround eachother in embracing love and comfort
instead
we just write it.
from “The Machine Stops” by E.M. Forester
as found in the book
“Fairy Tales for Computers”
as found in the books
the Books.
”
Ere silence was completed their hearts were opened, and they knew what had been important on the earth. Man, the flower of all flesh, the noblest of all creatures visible, man who had one made god in his image, and had mirrored his strength on the constellations, beautiful naked man was dying, strangled in the garments that he had woven. Century after century had he toiled, an here was his reward. Truly the garment had seemed heavenly at first, shot with the colours of culture, sewn with the threads of self-denial. And heavenly it had been so lang as it was a garment and no more, so long as man could shed it at will and live by the essence that is his soul, and the essence, equally divine, that is his body. The sin against the body — it was for that they wept in chief; the centuries of wrong against the muscles and the nerves, and those five portals by which we can alone apprehend — glozing it over with talk of evolution, until the body was white pap, the home of ideas as colourless, last sloshy stirrings of a spirit that had grasped the stars.
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