Minisode Thirty-Three: Correspondence
Literary Friction
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Do You Enjoy Correspondence in Literature?
When i lived in france and spain, we didn't have smart phones. It was much more like, you used your phone to make a plan, and then you met up in person. And i found it much easier to speak another language in front of the other person right? Ye. I love letters and novels. There are so many great epistolary novels from the eighteenth century that i read in college by people like fanny burney. Though i admit i have never read pamela by samuel richardson,. which is the kind of first great epistolary novel but also sounds just incredibly dull. So bori sorry to any pamela heads
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