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- i have always been fascinated with the moon and the stars... usually a clown yet really deep... i am responsible but i break rules sometimes... a cry baby yet unbreakable... all I ever dreamed of is to see an apple tree, play hockey, own an island and go on a cruise... lastly, I'm a bagaholic, a reader and a movie buff.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
After Ludwig Van Beethoven's death in March 1827 two documents were discovered in his desk. These were the Heiligenstadt Testament and 3 love letters. The passionate feelings manifested in these letters where addressed to a person unknown. Many have speculated over whom might be the recipient, made more difficult by the fact that there is no year or place given on the letters. But Solomon, the author of Beethoven’s life's biography, following Beethoven's date on the letters, his movement during the period (1812) and studying the persons close to Beethoven, has come to the solution that Antoine Brentano must be the answer, now generally accepted as being correct. <-- (Got this background from Wikipedia.)
I only posted here the third love letter since it is what touched me the most. It is also the letter Carrie read in the movie Sex and the City. The last 3 lines were the lines Big whispered to Carrie when they got married. I so loved that movie and since I couldn't get a hold of the book Love Letters of Great Men and Women, the book Carrie was reading in the movie, I hopefully searched the net just to get a hold of this one.
The Third Letter:
Good morning, on July 7, though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, now and then joyfully, then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us. I can live only wholly with you or not at all. Yes, I am resolved to wander so long away from you until I can fly to your arms and say that I am really at home with you, and can send my soul enwrapped in you into the land of spirits. Yes, unhappily it must be so. You will be the more contained since you know my fidelity to you. No one else can ever possess my heart. Never Never. Oh God, why must one be parted from one whom one so loves? And yet my life in V is now a wretched life. Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men. At my age I need a steady, quiet life. Can that be so in our connection? My angel, I have just been told that the mailcoach goes every day, therefore I must close at once so that you may receive the letter at once. Be calm, only by a calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose o live together. Be calm. Love me. Today. Yesterday. What tearful longings for you you. You. My life. My all. Farewell. Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.
Ever thine.
Ever mine.
Ever ours.
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