Thursday night.
Yes, I understand your Luria-& there is to be more light, & I open the window to the east & wait for it … a little less gladly than for you on saturday,-dearest!- In the meanwhile you have “lucid moments”, & “strengthen” yourself into the wisdom of learning to lose me .. &, upon consideration, it does not seem to be so hard after all .. there is ‘less for the future to take away’ than you had supposed.-so that is the way? Ah, “these lucid moments, in which all things are thoroughly perceived”!,-what harm they do me!- And I am to ‘understand for you,’ you say!-am I?
[22 January 1846]. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett to Browning, Robert.
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1846-01-22
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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Browning, Robert
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Thursday night.
Yes, I understand your Luria-& there is to be more light, & I open the window to the east & wait for it … a little less gladly than for you on saturday,-dearest!- In the meanwhile you have “lucid moments”, & “strengthen” yourself into the wisdom of learning to lose me .. &, upon consideration, it does not seem to be so hard after all .. there is ‘less for the future to take away’ than you had supposed.-so that is the way? Ah, “these lucid moments, in which all things are thoroughly perceived”!,-what harm they do me!- And I am to ‘understand for you,’ you say!-am I?