Mail Rant
Something of late has got me mind a-spinning about mail. Email, Voice Mail, Text Mail and even mail mail.It seems that brevity has got the better of us. What used to be some eloquent speak about how dearly you wanted to share your thoughts with someone you respected has become - IMHO. Let alone the whole 143 bullshit.
Used to be that folks would wait for mail two or three times a day for news about some tryst in the upper court or word about their dear loved one in the far reaches of some nether regions. And because it may take some time for your friend or loved one to receive the letter – like 6 months to a year – they really made the most of it.
And I’m not just talking about royal wax seals and all that shite you see on the BBC. There are books published over the letters that these people were writing to each other that tells of the elegance of language and longing for communication.
I can’t help but think that we may have lost something along the way with this whole instant communication kind of thing.
Just saying.
LOL.
I mean...
I truly wish a fine and immaculate day to my good friends who have taken the time to share a laugh or insight with me.
posted by Hellpop @ 12:43 AM
4 Comments:
Are you saying you're not into the whole brevity thing?
PS- I don't know that "nether regions" means what you think it means. Just sayin.
If you've got a loved-one down in the far reaches of your nether regions and you're expecting them to send up a letter expressing their current deep emotions... well, that's just kinky.
On the other hand, poetry is based on the economy of words. We have the option to steer our ever-increasing need for brevity away from a destruction of language and toward a poetic minimalism. A text message can be up to 160 characters in length. That's more than enough to write a haiku.
Nether regions are places never visited before.. I guess thats the price to be paid in the name of science and technology..
Anonymous: I've got a couple of dictionaries and none of them say that 'nether region' means "a place you've never been".
Unless, of course, you've never gone down before.
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