"... I went to hear Kranzer yesterday, and oh, Woggles, I tell
you, he is the edge, the very ultimate edge! I _rave_ over
him day and night. I'm madly, head-over-heels,
don't-know-how-to-express-it in love with him. I'm going to
throw you over and follow him about all round the world, and
whenever I get the chance just lie down and let him wipe his
boots on me. So--resign yourself to it; you'll probably never
see again,
Your fatally smitten
MADGE."
Occasionally, it is true, there occurs in these deplorable letters
just a touch of sentiment, but how crudely, how prosaically expressed.
Immediately after the passage quoted above, for instance, I find
this:--
"P.S.--Dear old boy, you don't mind when I rag you, do you?
Here's just a teeny-weeny x for you.
M."
How does "Amorosa" phrase such a sentiment?
"... My lips cannot touch your lips, but my soul seeks yours,
and in that spiritual embrace there is something of eternity."
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