This letter of love advice from John Steinbeck to his son is a must read (or a re-read if you are better at the Internet and read it a month ago when it was first posted).
This letter of love advice from John Steinbeck to his son is a must read (or a re-read if you are better at the Internet and read it a month ago when it was first posted).
Because the Book of Love is long and boring, and written very long ago.
@itmakesmewonder But will it open up and let us in?
@itmakesmewonder But Iiiiiiii, I love it when you read to me, and youuuuuuuu, you can read me anything.
(I like The Magnetic Fields cover of that song a lot.)
@itmakesmewonder The Pomplamoose cover is very nice as well!
@itmakesmewonder Not a cover. Stephin wrote that.
"First—if you are in love—that’s a good thing—that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light to you."
For some reason, that gave me little chill bumps. I like that acknowledgement that, hey, no matter what else, no matter what happens to it, no matter whether it blossoms or dies on the vine or anything in between, being in love is a nice thing for its own sake.
So sweet. Also, I am always sad that Steinbeck's fame is not derived from "Cannery Row" and "Sweet Thursday", because those books are tres amazing.
@@serenityfound YES, "Cannery Row!" Definitely the Steinbeck that has stayed with me the most over the years. Have not read "Sweet Thursday."
@bitzyboozer It's basically a "sequel" to 'Cannery Row', so I recommend it for that reason. It's been a really long time since I've read it, but I remember being deeply in love the same way I was with 'Cannery Row'.
Also, can we talk about how completely awful "The Pearl" is and how angry it makes me that it is included as required reading in a lot of high schools but "Cannery Row" isn't? All my nerdrage.
@@serenityfound ugh...I wouldn't touch Steinbeck for years due to overexposure to The Pearl in Middle School. Half my class chose to do book reports on it based on it being the shortest book on the list...I need to go find my copy of "The Winter of Our Discontent" and read it, especially now that it's Lent.
@queenieliz YES. Oh god, that one is so wonderful. It was one of my Lenten reads a few years back. Back when I was still doing those Lent and religion things.
I want it to be back in the olden days sometimes, just for things like the phrase, "We have had your letter."
This made me tear up. "Nothing good gets away."
I enjoyed this and the accompanying photo oh so very much. Thanks!
The whole site is amazing. This kiss-off letter from a freed slave to his former master is basically the platonic ideal of a kiss-off - http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/to-my-old-master.html
@Danzig! That letter is amazing, I love it so much. As soon as I got to the part about demanding back-wages, I knew it was great. Also, whenever I come across a link to something from Letters of Note, I always end up spending awhile reading a bunch of them. Off to do that now, probably.
@Danzig! "Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me."
"Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me."
Thank you for sharing this.
Hey hey hey, now. If we're going to talk about any famous writer's letters around here, I want to talk about James Joyce and his love of farts.
@figwiggin
Then?
He kissed the plump mellow yellow smellow melons of her rump, on each plump melonous hemisphere, in their mellow yellow furrow, with obscure prolonged provocative melonsmellonous osculation.
The visible signs of postsatisfaction?
A silent contemplation: a tentative velation: a gradual abasement: a solicitous aversion: a proximate erection.
What followed this silent action?
Somnolent invocation, less somnolent recognition, incipient excitation, catechetical interrogation.
@figwiggin Once in a while, my boyfriend & I will whisper "pop pop" in the other's ear. It never fails to elicit a horrified, uncomfortable giggle.
I think my pinpal recommended this to me. Only she accidentally said John Updike instead of John Steinbeck. No wonder I had so much trouble finding it. Truly the hairpin is all knowing.
When I first saw this on the main page, I read it as "This letter of love advice from John Stamos to his son" and got incredibly excited. It was still great but John Stamos, man.
Wow! This and the letter from the former slave are both amazing.
Did anyone else notice the letter about love from Ayn Rand?
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/02/love-of-parasite-is-worth-nothing.html
I'm not sure you could write a better satire if you tried.