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Word: clarissa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1981-1981
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...that sort of thing off his chest once in a while, he might lose his self-control. Without letters the London Times would be devoid of its liveliest pages; there would be no great literary epistles like Pope's to "Dr. Arbuthnot"no epistolary novels like Pamela and Clarissa-a minor loss, but a loss nonetheless, the loss of a form. That is what a letter is, after all: a literary form, like a sonnet. It is not as defined as a sonnet. Still one looks for things to be said in letters that are not said elsewhere, expecting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Don't Write Any Letters | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

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