Gentlemen, 尊敬的主编 I suppose you'd be more interested in even a sleight-o'-hand trick than you'd be in an application for a position with your magazine, but as usual you can't have the thing you want mo
Dear Mr President, 尊敬的总统先生， Seeing a picture of you in today's newspaper standing in front of a barbecue grilling quail, reminded me that I had never sent you the recipe of the drop scones which I pro
David Bowie sent a sweet and cheeky response to an American fan letter in 1967 1967年，大卫·鲍伊给美国粉丝甜蜜而露骨的回信 Dear Sandra, 亲爱的桑德拉， When I called in this, my manager’s office, a few moments ago I was handed
Dear L/Cpl, Villec" 亲爱的维列克， I'd like to 'step in here for a 'Minute or 'so' to ''tell you how much—I 'feel to know that 'you are a 'Jazz fan, and 'Dig' 'that 'Jive—the 'same as 'we 'do, "yeah." "Man—I
It puzzles me to make out how the same hand could have constructed your letter and your advertisements. 我十分疑惑，写这封信以及这些广告的竟然是出自同一人之手。 Puzzles fret me, puzzles annoy me, puzzles exasperate me; and alway
The 'Same as we did in my 'Home Town 'New Orleans'—those 'Funeral Marches etc. "Why 'Gate" 'Villec, we 'played those 'Marches with 'feeling from our 'hearts. 'All the way to the Cemetery—'Brass Band o
But when you develop a strong divining sense for the child behind that armour, and you make your dealings and negotiations only with that child, you find that everybody becomes, in a way, like your ow
So there it is. And the sense of itself, in that little being, at its core, is what it always was. But since that artificial secondary self took over the control of life around the age of eight, and r
