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desire is rapid as the postal system is slow. these delays in the mail make my letters obsolete at their creation, make whatever i write wrong. for even as i write, taking up each of the points in your last letter, there already exists a subsequent letter from you, written in response to the last one received by me, saying something else. as i write, there is already a new letter from you which i have not read. the letter god is sporting with us. our letters cross, but our limbs do not.
susan sontag: the letter scene.

this is probably one of the most beautiful short stories that i've read in a long time, and it happens to be in a fantastic book of them. they make me smile when reading before bed.