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veen  ·  2345 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 25, 2017

    Dear Skayne,

    8 May was your birthday, 25 years

    Hence this nice book

    (tell me what you think of it)

    To many years of friendship,

    learning and coffee.

    Kisses, Elske (?)





AnSionnachRua  ·  2345 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks Veen! I think I might append your translation to the book. I guess Skayne wasn't particularly taken by the book - or perhaps he/she had a dramatic falling out with this Elske figure, and had to get rid of it to forget. A mystery we'll never know the answer to!

It reminds me of a possibly apocryphal story about George Bernard Shaw, who found a copy of one of his own plays in a second-hand shop, and discovered it was a copy he himself had given to a friend with the inscription "With esteem, G B Shaw." So he bought and sent it to them again, adding "With renewed esteem, G B Shaw."

lil  ·  2345 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's very funny!