Comments on On the topic of clouds and love letters

I'm a total cloud freak!!
http://www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/
Thank you thank you thank you for introducing me to the site. I'm in heaven (no pun intended).

Oh, dude, writing this post is just asking for it (melodramatic, cliched love letters, that is - sincere or parodic). Not that I would do such a thing.

Everyone enough interested in love letters to open this comments thread should check out those of Dorothy Osborne. Dorothy was a 17th-century genius and fuckup who wrote a playful, wise, and crushingly depressing series of love letters to her future husband. Virginia Woolf wrote about Dorothy 250 years later!

The ever-invaluable Project Gutenberg offers the full text of these beauties.

P.S.

This also seems like a good time to mention 'Constable's Clouds: Paintings and Cloud Studies by John Constable,' edited by Edward Morris. Constable, as well as being the second-best British painter of the 19th century, was really, really, REALLY into clouds. The book is actually quite a touching account of one man's love affair with weather phenomena.

Obviously, I suck at writing love letters. It was never sent because he fucked Anita before I got the chance.

So you wanted to fuck Anita, too?

Good love letters include quotations from e. e. cummings at a much higher rate than ordinary letters.

When it comes to love, Pablo Neruda has already written all that ever needs to be said:

De otro. Será de otro. Como antes de mis besos.
Su voz, su cuerpo claro. Sus ojos infinitos.
Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero.
Es tan corto al amor, y es tan largo el olvido.
Porque en noches como ésta la tuve entre mis brazos,
mi alma no se contenta con haberla perdido.
Aunque ésta sea el último dolor que ella me causa,
y éstos sean los últimos versos que yo le escribo.

I'm pretty sure that's a photo of Hurricane Katrina. It's a shame that something so beautiful can be so destructive.

how fucking psyched would you be to receive a letter that said:

that they almost cut off your arm and that there is some kind of nice electricity. ?.

cut off my arm?? to reveal some sort of electricity?! jesus christ. i love this lunatic.

Good love letters describe the cutting off of body parts at a much lower rate than ordinary letters.