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Then, again, one day, the one who was once young will learn that somewhere at the other end of this very earth the older one has died. At first she will want to write in order to know. But time hurries on—the letter is frozen in time. Desire remains desire. – Marina Tsvetaeva, “Letter to an Amazon” (translated by Sonja Franeta) It is November. Darkness bites off chunks of daylight earlier. I am re-reading Letters: Summer 1926, a collection of letters exchanged between Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Rainer Maria Rilke. In November 1922, Tsvetaeva wrote to Pasternak: “A letter is like an otherworldly communication, less perfect than a dream but subject to the same rules.”1 In August 1926, as Rilke’s leukemia worsened, Tsvetaeva sent him a letter proposing what could be read as an erotic encounter: “You are what I’m going to dream about tonight, what will dream me tonight. […] A stranger, I, in someone else’s dream. I never await you; I always awake you.” She imagines her own role

Then, again, one day, the one who was once young will learn that somewhere at the other end of this very earth the older one has died. At first she will want to write in order to know. But time hurries on-the letter is frozen in time. Desire remains desire. - Marina Tsvetaeva, " Letter to an Amazon " (translated by Sonja Franeta) It is November. Darkness bites off chunks of daylight earlier. I am re-reading Letters: Summer 1926, a collection of letters exchanged between Boris Pasternak , Marina Tsvetaeva , and Rainer Maria Rilke . In November 1922, Tsvetaeva wrote to Pasternak: "A letter is li

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