29 The postscript was as follows:
-p .s.If this came to you by post, then you should know how we must mar things to prove that they exist, as I have had to do in order to be sure that I exist; hence the postmark; hence the used stamp.
I should rather not have sent you this at all; I should rather that the world remain extremely life-like.
Replace my kiss with your umbrella; remember what I quoted under the scaffold, the sorry subtext of all of that.
& still, I dream of sending you letters: dream in the manner of Mandelstam:
[At a critical moment, a seafarer tosses a sealed bottle into the ocean waves, containing his name and a message detailing his fate. Wandering along the dunes many years later, I happen upon it in the sand. I read the message, not the date, the last will and testament of one who has passed on. I have the right to do so. I have not opened someone else's mail. The message in the bottle was addressed to its finder. I found it. That means, I have become its secret addressee.]
The paraphrase would always be bad, our antennae bent and remorseful.
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